Luas, a Dublin-based tram (transportation) system operator, recently alerted its followers via Twitter regarding what appears to be a hack of the company website and blackmailing attempt by an unknown attacker. As detailed in Luas’ tweet from January 3rd, 2019, “an ongoing issue” has seemingly resulted in the website being down. Instead of seeing the normal Luas website pages, users who visit the site are presented the following message: “You are hacked … sometime ago I wrote that you have serious security holes [but] you didn’t reply … the next time someone talks to you, press the reply button … you must pay 1 bitcoin in 5 days … otherwise I will publish all data and send emails to your users.”
