A cyber attack took place today (Sunday) on the Iranian airline Mahan Air, and according to a claim by a known hacker group, documents, e-mail correspondence and other files were taken from the company's servers and they prove its ties with the Revolutionary Guards.
The hacker group, which calls itself "Hosharia Watan" and is affiliated with the opposition to the Iranian government, claims that documents obtained by hacking into the site and the company's servers prove its involvement in Revolutionary Guards operations outside Iran's territory.
The hacker group further claimed that the company was able to detect the break-in but was unable to stop it.
The Iranian news agency Fares reported that the company claimed that the hack was thwarted and that no damage was done to the company's computer system.
"Our cyber security team worked extremely efficiently and quickly and thwarted the attack. For us, this is a routine incident and this is not the first time such attacks have occurred," a company spokesman told the news agency.
Hizbullah terrorists on a Mahane Air flight
Mahane Air, together with the Sham Wings airline, provide civilian coverage for Revolutionary Guards operations in Syria, Iraq and Yemen and provide combat, weapons and ammunition transportation services for Iran's metastases in the various Middle Eastern countries.
The company's planes regularly land at Syrian airports and according to state reports, pro - Iranian militias are using flights to bring terrorists and weapons into the country.
Last month, an extensive and sophisticated cyber attack silenced Iran's fuel system and shut down more than 4,000 gas stations, with gasoline monitors and gas station signs displaying anti-regime slogans.
The country explicitly blamed Israel for the attack.