A subsequent incident in San Francisco resulted in free rides for train passengers when a ticket machine failed to collect tickets in one of the trains in San Francisco.
San Francisco Chronicle reports that visitors and regular passengers of the train enjoyed free rides in the city trains from Friday evening to Saturday night until the corporation finally managed to run the normal system of online ticket collecting.
According to Chronicle, the Muni Metro station confirmed that they received the hack-transit message on their computer screen just before the online services failed for ticket bookings.
The Muni Metro Spokesman, Paul Rose said that "We are focused now on working to investigate the matter fully to find out all other details, “But at this point, there is no impact to transit service, to our security systems or to our customers' private information."
However, Rose declined to give more information about the incident and said the investigation is going on the issue.
Mahendra Ramsinghani, the Silicon Valley capitalist and security investor reported that this hacking attack might be a ransomware attack. In which they have to make payment to hackers in order to release data of the hacked systems.
Hoodline, a website reported that a “pseudonymous hacker" demanded an amount of $73,000 to release 2,000 computers in SFMTA network.
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