A cyber attack has disrupted the sale of fuel across Iran by targeting its electronic card payment system, according to the state television channel, forcing motorists to form long queues at petrol stations nationwide.
“The attack which took place . . . and was witnessed as a broad disruption had the characteristics of a cyber attack,” Abolhassan Firoozabadi, secretary of the Supreme Council of Cyber Space, told state television on Tuesday evening.
“The disruption was related not to the distribution or production of fuel at all but to the cyber management of petrol stations,” he said. Firoozabadi added that the attack was probably carried out by a “foreign country” but did not name a nation.