TEHRAN: Iran said on Tuesday it had foiled a cyber-attack on the Islamic republic’s oil ministry, and that those behind the hacking attempt were based in the United States. The Fars news agency cited Brigadier General Kamal Hadianfar, head of the cyber police, as saying the unit had thwarted “the hackers’ attack on the oil ministry”.

He said the source of the attempt was in the United States, and that the US authorities had been informed.

“The IP address for these hackers was in America,” he said, adding that “an international judicial order” had been sent to the United States, without elaborating.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2015

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