geoff@iconia.com
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:38:05 -1000
*Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker* http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/11/20/sacramento-regional-transit-systems-hit-by-hacker/
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- Sacramento Regional Transit is the one being taken for
a ride on this night, by a computer hacker. That hacker forced RT to halt
its operating systems that take credit card payments, and assigns buses and
trains to their routes. The local transit agency alerted federal agents
following an attack on their computers that riders may not have noticed
Monday. ``We actually had the hackers get into our system, and
systematically start erasing programs and data,'' Deputy General Manager
Mark Lonergan.
Inside RT's headquarters, computer systems were taken down after the hacker deleted 30 million files. The hacker also demanded a ransom in bitcoin, and a left a message on the RT website reading ``I'm sorry to modify the home page, I'm good hacker, I just want to help you fix these vulnerability.''