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February 24, 2022

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has mentioned a hacker was liable for numerous obscene messages which appeared on just one of its social media accounts previously this week.

WMATA’s Twitter account, which has far more than 302,000 followers, was compromised in the early hrs of Monday morning. At close to 3:40am, the attacker adjusted the name of the account from ‘Metro’ to ‘Blueface Da Bus,’ then remaining a sequence of unsolicited opinions, some of which contained profanities.

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One particular of the posts left by the hacker examine: “ok really serious issue. are we a superior bus station or are we ass [sic].”

A further article examine “anyone below have boobs lol,” while other people mentioned booties. 

The hacker then offered to share the login qualifications for the account with other people, putting up: “anybody want the login I’m weary.” 

Shortly following Blueface commenced turning WMATA’s Twitter account blue, the Twitter account of @Metrorailinfo was reportedly taken in excess of by an unauthorized party. The hack came right after Metrorail Info account warned its followers that the @wmata account had been hacked and they should not adhere to it.

The @MetrorailInfo hacker posed as a disgruntled social media manager, submitting: “we ain’t hacked I just despise being a social media manager for a F—ING BUS TWITTER.”

The transit authority told ABC7 News that it was investigating the security incident to figure out who was powering the hack. 

“We are conscious that Metro’s Twitter accounts @WMATA @MetrorailInfo have been hacked and obscene posts had been made that do not signify Metro’s corporation or tradition,” claimed WMATA in a statement to ABC7 Information on Monday early morning.  

“The posts will be eliminated, and our account will be secured. We are doing work to have an understanding of who may possibly be responsible for this breach.”

By 6.00am on Monday, WMATA experienced regained control of the account and deleted the hacker’s posts. The Metrorail Info was secured on Monday afternoon. 

Just one Twitter consumer, contacting them selves FIXWMATA, commented on the attack: “Just a helpful reminder: maybe imagine two times ahead of entrusting your credit card information to a transit program that are not able to even safe their very own Twitter account.” 

WMATA has faced criticism recently soon after much more than 50 % its rolling inventory was recalled about a flaw that induced a derailment.  


Some parts of this short article are sourced from:
www.infosecurity-journal.com

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