On Sunday night digital departure boards at Beirut’s airport have been hijacked by hackers who used them to show anti-Iranian and anti-Hezbollah messages.
A bunch calling itself “Lord and the Folks” took credit score for the assault, which displayed messages which translated as:
That is Rafik Hariri Airport, not Hezbollah and Iran Airport.
To Hassan Nasrallah, you’ll not discover a helper if Lebanon is troubled in a struggle and also you bear accountability for it and its penalties.
We is not going to battle on behalf of anybody. You blew up our port and now you wish to blow up our airport due to the introduction of weapons. Let the airport be free of the grip of the state.
Hassan Nasrallah is the chief of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Some passengers recorded the weird scene on their smartphones, and shared the footage on social media.
قرصنة شاشات صالة #مطار_بيروت وظهر على الشاشات شعار #جنود_الرب مرفق برسالة لـ #حزب_الله pic.twitter.com/X2yhgJiGLR
— Al Jadeed Information (@ALJADEEDNEWS) January 7, 2024
Though flights continued to go away the airport on schedule, there’s little doubt that the hack may have inconvenienced some folks and may have brought about some concern amongst passengers.
On the similar time, Lebanese travellers reported receiving textual content messages on their cellphones claiming to be from Center East Airways (MEA), and asking them to “adhere to the directions of the safety companies.”
MEA says that though it does contact passengers within the occasion of emergencies through e mail and textual content message, it was not accountable on this event for the message despatched to travellers’ telephones.
