Trains Stop for Danish Train Operator DSB

November 4, 2022

INCIDENT

A breakdown of Denmark’s train network last weekend was the result of a hacker attack on an IT subcontractor’s software testing environment, Danish train operator DSB said.
“We were contacted by our subcontractor who told us that their testing environment had been compromised by criminal hackers,” DSB’s chief of security, Carsten Dam Sonderbo-Jacobsen, told public broadcaster DR.
“It hasn’t targeted infrastructure or DSB, it was economic crime,” Sonderbo-Jacobsen said in a Reuters report, adding it was not clear who was behind the attack, but that investigations were ongoing.

Incident Date

October 29, 2022

Location

Denmark

Estimated Cost

Operations stopped as a result of train operator's subcontractor suffering attack.

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified