Authorities Investigating Cyber Breaches Aboard Two U.S.-Bound Ships

By Raphael Satter and Jonathan Saul

WASHINGTON/LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – US Coast Guard and FBI personnel boarded two commercial vessels bound for the United States in the Gulf of Mexico last month after indications that hackers had broken into their computer networks, the agencies said on Thursday.

The unusual operation, carried out on August 21 and August 24 aboard two foreign-flagged ships, comes as US authorities grapple with a series of cyber incidents that media reports have linked to Iran since the outbreak of conflict between Washington and Tehran.

The FBI said a joint Coast Guard-FBI team boarded