Wi-fi hacked at railway stations to show anti-Islam attack message

19 stations have had wi-fi landing page hacked

Network Rail has confirmed that wi-fi at 19 mainline railway hubs have had wi-fi compromised.

When commuters logged on to wi-fi at stations across the country yesterday, instead of the usual landing page they were met with a message titled, ‘We love you, Europe’ which conveyed far-right anti-Islam messaging about terror attacks.

A Network Rail spokesperson confirmed that wi-fi was still down and said: "We are currently dealing with a cyber security incident affecting the public wi-fi at Network Rail’s managed stations."

The affected stations span the biggest and busiest hubs in England and Scotland. Stretching from Bristol Temple-Meads in the southwest to Reading and Guildford in the southeast, most of London’s biggest hubs, and up to Leeds, Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Lime Street in the northwest and to Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley.

Network Rail said that British Transport Police is investigating, and also that other organisations have been affected, although as yet, it is not known which organisations.

"This service is provided via a third party and has been suspended while an investigation is under way," the spokesperson said.

The wi-fi services at all stations have been taken down as investigations continue.

Telent, the third party which provides the wi-fi for Network Rail, confirmed it was aware of the "security incident" and was "investigating with Network Rail and other stakeholders".

A spokesperson said: "We have been informed there is an ongoing investigation by the British Transport Police into this incident, so it would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage."

At present there is no indication that passenger data has been compromised.

The attack comes hot on the heels of the ongoing problems at TfL, where a cyberattack that began several weeks ago is still hampering the availability of live travel information and has led to the compromise of the personal details of thousands of travellers.