UK Train Stations' Wi-Fi Hacked With An Islam-Critical Message

by TBG

UK Train Stations' Wi-Fi Hacked With An Islam-Critical Message

A hacker has accessed the Wi-Fi network of at least 19 UK railway stations run by Network Rail to display the message below. 

People who logged-on to the network initially saw a page outlining Islamic terror attacks in this country. The message titled "We Love You Europe" went on to outline the Muslim terror attack in Manchester and warned of the "Islamisation Of Europe" with the attacks a "small taste of what's to come". 

British Transport Police said they were treating it as a priority as a spokesman said “We received reports at around 5.03pm yesterday (25 September) of a cyber-attack displaying Islamophobic messaging on some Network Rail Wi-Fi services. We are working alongside Network Rail to investigate the incident at pace.”

All the Wi-FI services at those stations were switched off to avoid train users seeing the activist's messaging. 

The message was displayed at major London stations including Euston, Victoria, King’s Cross, London Bridge, Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Liverpool Street, Paddington, Clapham Junction and Waterloo and national stations including Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street, Glasgow Central, Leeds City, Liverpool Lime Street, Bristol Temple Meads, Edinburgh Waverley, Reading, and Guildford.

Many among the unimedia framed it the same way, as a "sinister terrorism message" or "terror message" when in fact the reverse was true. Examples of this include the Mirror Group #; LBC #; the Sun #; The Express #, etc. Here is the BBC's report on this #  When the term 'disinformation' is used, it's never the mainstream media they're thinking of, but it so often is them.

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