Iran’s main nuclear agency says its mail servers have been hacked

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(Bloomberg) —

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, the country’s top body overseeing its disputed nuclear program, said the mail servers of one of its subsidiaries had been subject to « unlawful infiltration » by a unknown group in a foreign country.

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According to a statement posted on the AEOI’s website, a number of emails from the IT unit of the Nuclear Energy Production and Development Co., which is responsible for nuclear power manufacturing, have been posted online. .

The announcement comes after a group called Black Reward claimed in a series of posts on its Telegram channel and Twitter on Friday that it had hacked the AEOI as part of a campaign supporting rampant anti-government protests. currently in Iran.

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