A man has been arrested following a British Transport Police investigation into the abuse of access to some Network Rail Wi-Fi services yesterday.

Officers received reports just after 5pm yesterday (25 September) of a breach of some Network Rail Wi-Fi services at railway stations which were displaying Islamophobic messaging.

The abuse of access was restricted to the defacement of the splash pages, and no personal data is known to have been affected.

The man is an employee of Global Reach Technology who provide some Wi-Fi services to Network Rail.

He has been arrested on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and offences under the Malicious Communications Act 1988.

The cyber attack hit public Wi-Fi at some of the biggest railways stations in the country.

Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street and 11 stations in London were affected by the attack on Wednesday which saw passengers trying to log on seeing messages about terror attacks in Europe, according to reports.