Yikes: How Did a California Freeway Sign Get Hacked With an Iranian Regime Death List?
How Did a California Freeway Sign Get Hacked With an Iranian Regime Death List? 8 and said he was shocked to see people he knows from anti-regime protests were on the page.“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing on the sign. I drove by a couple of times to make sure it was real,” he told The California Post.
- ▪How Did a California Freeway Sign Get Hacked With an Iranian Regime Death List?
- ▪8 and said he was shocked to see people he knows from anti-regime protests were on the page.“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing on the sign.
- ▪I drove by a couple of times to make sure it was real,” he told The California Post.
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| Publication time | Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:15:00 -0400 |
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How Did a California Freeway Sign Get Hacked With an Iranian Regime Death List? Rusty Weiss Follow @Rusty_Weiss Sep 21, 2026 7:15 AM 7:15 AM on September 21, 2026 Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-728x90_1"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-728x90_1"]]) }); AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani A digital sign on a Los Angeles freeway was hijacked and used to point drivers to an Iranian regime-linked website that publishes personal details of dissidents living in the city.
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