Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Did Russian-based hackers cause IR booking collapse?

The Irish Times reported on Monday that Russian-based hackers hit Irish website before Friday’s voting. Among the sites that were hit was Irish Rail's

On the Thursday before the vote Irish Rail’s booking system collapsed and was down for close to 24 hours. Was this the result of the hacking? Why did Irish Rail not inform passengers of the outage? 

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