Security News > 2022 > January > Hackers say they encrypted Belarusian Railway servers in protest
A group of hackers claim they breached and encrypted servers belonging to the Belarusian Railway, Belarus's national state-owned railway company.
"At the command of the terrorist Lukashenka, Belarusian Railway allows the occupying troops to enter our land," the group said today on Twitter.
The Belarusian Cyber-Partisans hacktivists say they have the encryption keys for the compromised Belarusian Railway servers.
On their Telegram channel, the group also shared screenshots from systems compromised in the incident, showing they had access to internal Belarusian Railway systems, Veeam backup servers, the Windows domain controller, and the backup server that contains tens of terabytes allegedly awaiting destruction.
While Belarusian Railway has not issued an official statement, the company published an 'Attention passengers!' alert on its website today warning of ongoing problems with issuing electronic travel documents.
"Currently, work is underway to restore the performance of the systems. Belarusian Railways apologizes for the inconvenience caused."
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