Blaming hacker for intercom malfunction in Maastricht
On Wednesday 6 April around noon, the Maastricht train station had to deal with some unrest when passengers were asked over the intercom to evacuate the station. It took station employees 10 minutes to figure out that it was all in error. So what did they tell people? They basically made up a story about a hacker breaking into their system.
Apparently a women’s voice in English told passsegers for more than an hour to leave the station. The employees told people a hacker was responsible, although the system had a malfunction, pure and simple. A spokesperson eventually explained that the station was busy installing a new system, which had a malfunction.
Interestingly enough, ‘serious’ news channel RTL4 ran with the hacker idea and are still claiming that is the case.
(Link: limburger.nl)
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