Ports and freight rail systems in South Africa offline after hack on Transnet

[Jan]

Transnet hacked — South Africa's port systems offline

Transnet has been hacked, causing South Africa's ports and freight rail services to grind to a halt.

Supply chain management company ISS Global Forwarding announced on Twitter that it received information that Transnet was the victim of a cyberattack.

Hat tip to the forum members who alerted us to this hack.

 

[RedViking]

Africa.

The gift that keeps on giving.

Won't surprise me if the crowd who strategically planned the riots are behind this as well.

 

[Pudding McTwinkle]

This place is doomed

 

[RedViking]

 

[redspark]

Eish, that sucks.

 

[JohnStarr]

Well someone's getting a raise for this.

Transnet: See guys, told you we could be hacked!!!

 

[Thor]

Does not surprise me, the state of IT in SA is appalling and that is in the private sector, now just imagine SEOs where it's always someone's cousin running it.

 

[LCBXX]

If this is ransomware, will the cadres negotiate a kickback from the ransom payment?

 

[wingnut771]

at least the bitcoin doesn't need to leave the country.

 

[gregmcc]

Hacked. Did they logon with admin/admin?

 

[Conack]

Just spoke to a client [insurance broker] and he said one of their clients' monthly premium went from R20k to 45k, after their previous term expired this month. (Through Santam - thanks to the KZN fiasco).

We can expect these additional costs to be passed on to us very soon.
This is the cherry on the cake for the freight industry.

 

[rrh]

Just spoke to a client [insurance broker] and he said one of their clients' monthly premium went from R20k to 45k, after their previous term expired this month. (Through Santam - thanks to the KZN fiasco).

We can expect these additional costs to be passed on to us very soon.
This is the cherry on the cake for the freight industry.

Could get worse: expect to hear of claims rejected 'cos client's policies didn't include SASRIA

 

[cr@zydude]

Transnet hacked — South Africa's port systems offline

Transnet has been hacked, causing South Africa's ports and freight rail services to grind to a halt.

Supply chain management company ISS Global Forwarding announced on Twitter that it received information that Transnet was the victim of a cyberattack.

TFR says that rail is running fine. Looks like containers are the big problem:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1418160214700871682

 

[Corelli]

I bet its more than likely someone didnt pay a bill, and the systems got revoked.

We keep hearing how they havent paid bills, because well the money got displaced and their IT providers threaten to cut them off.

But it can be fixed by spending Billions more from the tax payer.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I bet its more than likely someone didnt pay a bill, and the systems got revoked.

We keep hearing how they havent paid bills, because well the money got displaced and their IT providers threaten to cut them off.

But it can be fixed by spending Billions more from the tax payer.

Not likely actually...

This is more widespread than just the Navis platform that runs the terminals.

 

[Sinbad]

Ffs. My container is on its way to durban. Beautiful timing.

 

[Sinbad]

This is encryption ransomware.

 

[R13...]

Sure they'll soon recover from back up

 

[The_Librarian]

Ffs. My container is on its way to durban. Beautiful timing.

Oh dear.

I hope it goes through without any molestation or other issues.

 

[ToxicBunny]

This is encryption ransomware.

Yeah I would tend towards thinking the same thing really.. some ****** inside Transnet opened a dodgy attachment and fscked them.