Hacker Shuts Down Copenhagen’s Public City Bikes System
Found on Bleeping Computer on Saturday, 12 May 2018
An unidentified hacker has breached Bycyklen —Copenhagen's city bikes network— and deleted the organization's entire database, disabling the public's access to bicycles over the weekend.
Bycyklen described the hack as "rather primitive," alluding it may have been carried out "by a person with a great deal of knowledge of its IT infrastructure."
Bycyklen said on Facebook that fixing the problem required a manual update of all bikes. Employees restored 200 bikes on Saturday after tracking down bicycles and rebooting the attached Android tablet.
You would assume that restoring the database from backup would bring everything back up. It's somewhat odd that all bikes would require physical intervention.