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I don't see any reason other than sheer speculation to suspect a cyberattack. It can just as easily have been some car crashed into a fiber optic thingy. The l
by jeffbee 2y ago
I don't see any reason other than sheer speculation to suspect a cyberattack. It can just as easily have been some car crashed into a fiber optic thingy.
The last time in recent memory there was a large BART disruption it had been caused by a motorcyclist who somehow flung himself over a fence into the trackway and died. That stopped service in and north of Oakland, which is more than half of the system by riders.
- scarmig 1y agoAll sheer speculation--the reference to cyberattack was from a now dead comment suggesting it was ransomware. It doesn't seem likely to be a physical obstruction on the tracks, though, as the entire system is down and trains aren't running anywhere. I don't know if that's happened before.
- bobmcnamara 1y agoLast year in Paris Russian operations shut down the rail yards by tossing small wires over the rails - the train detector circuits work by shorting the rails together, so a handful of people were able to tell the rail network "do not proceed, stuck train ahead!"