Luas cyberattack

In January 2019 the website for the Luas was compromised with a message threatening to "publish all data and send emails to your users" unless 1 Bitcoin was paid in five days.[1][2][3][4] At the time of the attack one bitcoin was worth €3,385.[1]

Response of Luas operator

Transdev took the site offline on Thursday January 3, 2019.[1][2][3][4] That afternoon they said that the records affected were those of people who had signed up to a Luas newsletter and that those people would be contacted in the next 24 hours to inform them of the breach.[1][2] No financial records had been compromised.[3][1] The Data Protection Commissioner and Garda National Economic Crime Bureau were both notified of the attack.[1][3]

References
  1. "'Professional cyber-attack' may affect 3,226 Luas user record". RTE News. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  2. "Over 3,000 Luas users may have had records compromised in cyber attack". Irish Examiner. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  3. Burns, Sarah (3 January 2019). "Over 3,000 Luas user records 'may have been compromised' in cyber attack". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  4. "At least 3,226 user records compromised in Luas cyber attack". TheJournal.ie. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
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