Sen. Warner Asks if DC Metro is Vulnerable to Cyberattack
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., queried the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority about the security of WMATA's online communication systems, after a November ransomware attack on the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. “While early reports indicate that the attack on SFMTA…
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may have been opportunistic rather than targeted, I am concerned that WMATA may represent a particularly enticing target for more advanced threats, given its importance to the region and the number of federal agencies that rely on the system to transport their workforces each day,” Warner wrote in a Monday letter to WMATA General Manager Paul Wiedefeld. Warner also asked WMATA to update him on efforts to deploy wireless communication systems including a public Wi-Fi network, and first-responder interoperability concerns raised by a fatal smoke incident near the L’Enfant Plaza rail station in January 2015. "We have received the senator's letter and will provide a timely response," a WMATA spokeswoman said.