Security News > 2021 > November > Hackers hit Iran's Mahan airline, claim confidential data theft
One of Iran's largest privately-owned airlines, Mahan Air, has announced a cybersecurity incident that has resulted in its website going offline and potentially data loss.
"Following the news of the cyber attack on the systems of Mahan Airlines, it is reported that due to the position of Mahan Airlines in the country's aviation industry, such attacks have been carried out against this company many times and at different times, so that they may be damaged," reads the translated tweet by Mahan airlines.
"This is considered a normal occurrence and Mahan Cyber Security Team has always acted intelligently and in a timely manner and has thwarted these attacks. Therefore, it hereby announces that all Mahan flights will be operated according to the schedule and future flights will be operated according to the previous schedule."
Although Mahan's operations oppose American strategic interests, which led to actual military action in July 2020, the hackers responsible for the most recent incident don't seem to be Americans.
The hackers claim to have stolen confidential documents exposing how Mahair Air has worked with the IRGC and threatened to publish names, numbers, and proof of Mahan's activities.
"Hacking Mahan Airlines is the first step of a program to stop the looting and encroachments of the corrupt corps on the city and the people of Ahvaz and Khuzestan. With the confidential documents we have obtained from the internal network of Mahan Airlines, we will prove our claim of Mahan complicity in the criminal activities of the IRGC, and we will also show that the Quds force is looting the money and resources of the people and the country of Iran among insurgent groups," reads a translated text from the alleged hackers.