[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Targeted attack shuttered an Iran government system managing fuel subsidises
- The closure saw lines of angry motorists stranded at fuel pumps across the state
- Petrol stations that accept only cash and are not in the subsidy card network continued pumping fuel
- No group has claimed responsibility, but it is similar to an attack months earlier
Most Iranians rely on those subsidies to fuel their vehicles, particularly amid the country's economic problems.
While ISNA did not acknowledge the number's significance, that number is associated with a hotline run through Mr Khamenei's office that handles questions about Islamic law.
ISNA later removed its reports, claiming that it too had been hacked. Such claims of hacking can come quickly when Iranian outlets publish news that angers the theocracy.
Farsi-language satellite channels abroad published videos apparently shot by drivers in Isfahan, a major Iranian city, showing electronic billboards there reading: 'Khamenei! Where is our gas?'
Another said: 'Free gas in Jamaran gas station,' a reference to the home of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The use of the number '64411' mirrored an attack in July targeting Iran's railroad system that also saw the number displayed.
Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point later attributed the train attack to a group of hackers that called themselves Indra, after the Hindu god of war.
Indra previously targeted firms in Syria, where President Bashar Assad has held on to power through Iran's intervention in his country's grinding war.
The disruptions came ahead of the second anniversary of an increase in fuel prices in November 2019 which led to widespread street protests in which hundreds were reported to have been killed by security forces.