MCAD Maritime Cyber Attack Database
Year2020 |
MonthMay |
Reference number20200501 |
Impact areaShore |
Incident locationBandar Abbas |
Incident countryIran |
Victim countryIran |
Victim identityShahid Rajaee port |
Victim TypePort |
MethodHacking |
Attacker countryIsrael |
On May 9 2020, the port of Shahid Rajaee, Iran was hit by a cyberattack, causing transport chaos for days after crashing the facility’s Computer System. The cyberattack created kilometres-long line-ups of vehicles outside the port and vessels stuck in the harbour. Israel has been accused of launching the cyberattack, assumably as a retaliation for an earlier cyberattack on Israel a month earlier, following reports of possible Iranian involvement in this cyberattack on May 8 2020.
