British Transport Police have arrested a man following investigation into the abuse of access to some Network Rail Wi-Fi services yesterda including at Manchester Piccadilly
The man is an employee of Global Reach Technology who provide some Wi-Fi services to Network Rail. He has been arrested on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and offences under the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
People logging onto the Wi-Fi railway were met with the displaying of Islamophobic messaging. The abuse of access was restricted to the defacement of the splash pages, and no personal data is known to have been affected.
