Watch Dogs 2 comes alive as San Francisco light-rail hack forces free rides
It’s just like in that game, Watch Dogs 2! San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency is still investigating a hack that forced Muni Metro ticketing machines to be taken offline Friday evening and all day Saturday after the message “You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted” hit Muni agents’ computer screens. Transportation was not interrupted, though riders got free rides — just on the Metro, which is only a portion of San Francisco’s already-insufficient public transit system — for the duration while the SFMTA kept its computers down as a precaution....