A government memo saying a railway was hacked in a targeted attack was incorrect, according to a spokeswoman for the Association of American Railroads.

“There was no targeted computer-based attack on a railroad,” according to spokeswoman Holly Arthur. “The memo on which the story was based has numerous inaccuracies.”

Asked if there was an “untargeted” incident that disrupted train service nonetheless, Arthur declined to comment, leaving the public in the dark about what exactly was right and wrong in the memo.

A DHS spokesman had previously told Threat Level on Tuesday that the incident wasn’t a “targeted” attack, but refused to provide additional details to explain the exact nature of the incident that affected the railway service.

Sources, who asked not to be identified, have told Threat Level that the person who wrote the memo misunderstood what was said about the incident in a meeting and wrote that it was a targeted attack focused on the railway, when in fact it was not targeted at the railroad.

Though no one is willing to provide details about what exactly happened, it appears that a cyber incident did occur, but it may have been aimed at another entity, not the railway. Somehow the railway suffered collateral effects from that attack. No one has been willing to say how exactly that occurred.

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So much for the new "cyber security" bill idea that would have crushed our net freedoms further. Better luck next time!