旧金山市政铁路的乘客们在这个周末得到了一个意想不到的惊喜，因为系统的计算机系统显然遭到了黑客攻击。据《旧金山考官》报道，市政系统在周五下午遭到攻击。

星期五和星期六晚些时候，市政当局的售票机上贴着印有“停止服务”和“地铁免费”的标志。据考官说，穆尼是在周五第一次意识到入侵的。

市政局的电脑屏幕上显示一条信息：“你入侵了，所有数据都加密了。钥匙联系人([email protected])身份证号码：681，输入。“市政局发言人保罗·罗斯对审查员说，他的机构正在“努力解决问题”，但拒绝提供更多细节。

通过电子邮件联系，黑客证实他正在寻求与穆尼达成协议，以弥补损失：

we don't attention to interview and propagate news ! our software working completely automatically and we don't have targeted attack to anywhere ! SFMTA network was Very Open and 2000 Server/PC infected by software ! so we are waiting for contact any resp***ible person in SFMTA but i think they don't want deal ! so we close this email tomorrow!

今年9月，Morphus实验室将一名同名黑客与一种名为Mamba的勒索软件联系起来，后者采用的策略与针对MUNI的类似。

这并不是加州第一个面临这样一个问题的组织：今年早些时候，好莱坞长老会医疗中心（Hollywood Pre**yterian Medical Center）发现，他们的档案被以360万美元的赎金扣押。勒索软件攻击通常发生在恶意文件下载到计算机上并执行时。一旦受害者支付了所要求的赎金，这些文件就会被解密。

更新，11月29日：市政局代表保罗·罗斯发表了以下声明：

We can confirm a ransomware attack.  Faregates are again operational. We opened them on Friday and Saturday as a precaution. There has been no impact to transit service, to our safety systems or to our customer's personal information. The incident remains under investigation, so it wouldn't be appropriate to provide any additional details at this point.

He also noted that Muni's fare system was not hacked:

The ransomware didn’t even penetrate our firewalls. On Friday, when we first learned of the incident, our agency, along with the contractor, made a decision to open the faregates to minimize any impact to our customers who may have been making transacti*** at either the faregates or vending machines. Once we had more information, we again turned the faregates and machines on.