: Hackers Breach Irans Atomic Energy Agency as Protests Persist #WorldNEWS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Irans atomic energy agency alleged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of an unidentified

Hackers Breach Irans Atomic Energy Agency as Protests Persist #WorldNEWS
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Irans atomic energy agency alleged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of an unidentified foreign country broke into a subsidiarys network and had free access to its email system.
An anonymous hacking group claimed responsibility for the attack on Irans Atomic Energy Organization, demanding Tehran release political prisoners arrested in the recent nationwide protests. The group said it leaked 50 gigabytes of internal emails, contracts and construction plans related to Iran’s Russian-backed nuclear power plant in Bushehr and shared the files on its Telegram channel. It was unclear whether the breached system contained classified material.

The hack comes as Iran continues to face nationwide unrest first sparked by the Sept. 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman in police custody for allegedly not adhering to the countrys strict Islamic dress code. On Sunday, Irans leading teachers’ association reported that sit-ins canceled classes at multiple schools across the country in protest over the government’s crackdown on student protesters.
The protests first focused on Iran’s state-mandated hijab, or headscarf, for women but transformed into one of the most serious challenges to the country’s ruling clerics. Protesters have clashed with police and even called for the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself. Security forces have fired live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrations, killing over 200 people, according to estimates by rights groups.
Irans civil nuclear arm said hackers breached the email system used by a company operating the countrys sole nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr. The agency blamed a “foreign country for the attack, without elaborating. Iran has previously accused the United States and Israel for cyberattacks that have impaired the country’s infrastructure.
“These illegal efforts out of desperation are aimed at attracting public attention,” the organization said.
An anonymous hacking group, calling itself “Black Reward, published on Telegram what appeared to be files of contracts, construction plans and details about equipment at the Bushehr plant, which went online in 2011 with help from Russia.
“Unlike Westerners, we do not flirt with criminal mullahs,” the group wrote.
Meanwhile the Coordination Council for Teachers Union, Irans leading teachers’ association that has been vocal in the protests, reported that schools, largely in Irans Kurdish provinces, heeded its call to boycott classes Sunday in protest over the deaths and detentions of students in the past month of unrest.

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