When UK rail stations Wi-Fi was defaced by hackers the only casualty was the truth

If you believed some of the news headlines in the UK on Thursday, you would think that something much more serious had happened.

People are understandably worried when they read headlines about terror attacks and railway stations – but the facts of the matter are rather less disastrous.

Yes, it is true that the public Wi-Fi systems at 19 UK railways stations was hacked this week.

According to Network Rail, who operate most of the railway infrastructure in Great Britain, public Wi-Fi at the fo