According to Interfax, on March 7, 2022, Russian Railways turned off Wi-Fi access for passengers and mourners on trains, at stations and train stations in the country due to ongoing DDoS attacks on the company's network IT infrastructure from abroad.
Russian Railways explained that this is a temporary situation, and passengers can use their own smartphones with mobile Internet to access the Internet. places of public access, including railway passenger infrastructure facilities and trains running on the Russian railway network," RZD said. In addition to free Internet access via Russian Railways Wi-Fi, passengers with tickets for some trains have access to the Poputchik internal multimedia portal with entertainment content. It is likely that this service will also be unavailable.
On November 15, 2019, the user keklick1337 in his publication “The most defenseless is Sapsan” said that he was able to access the internal services of the Sapsan multimedia portal in twenty minutes, found some data locally stored there about passengers (current and past flights), and also found in this system “VPN to the Russian Railways network” and wrote: “RZD, correct everything, I’ll check again in a couple of months.”
On November 19, 2019, it was reported that Russian Railways learned about this situation and is conducting a technological investigation into the fact of hacking (this is how the situation is described in the company) of the wireless access system to the Sapsan high-speed train network.
On November 21, Russian Railways experts conducted an investigation into the fact that one of the passengers gained access to the service part of the Sapsan Wi-Fi system and came to the conclusion that there are no critical vulnerabilities in their network, using which you can access really important data or internal services, and there is no threat of theft of personal data when hacking the multimedia system of the Sapsan train.
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