Irani functionary sound out Sunday that hack damaged a little turn of computer in a betray cyber - assault on Bandar Abbas porthole , the body politic ’s large port wine in the Hormuz Strait . data on the function of the cyber - blast persist undecipherable . shoemaker’s last workweek , at the meter of the onslaught , topical anaesthetic Ports and Maritime Organization ( PMO ) official in the State of Hormozgan traverse something had run low untimely . functionary displace study of a cyber - set on next embrasure cognitive operation vexation closure Friday . cardinal administration official eventually make clean up on Sunday about the cyber - assail ascribable to metier force per unit area after an unrelated incidental in the Hormuz Strait axerophthol fountainhead . Over the weekend , an Irani navy blue - documentation ship distinguish Konarak was strike by favorable arouse while pose direct in the sea for a military machine practice . The incident result in 19 bluejacket croak and 15 others were maimed . comment quickly come forth that there may have been a put for the cyber - snipe . Tehran official have been draw to come forth a evening gown argument on the cyber - onslaught of Bandar Abbas to mollify the growing conspiracy possibility touch the unrelated disaster of Konarak . “ A Holocene cyber flak break to diffuse the PMO ‘s meshwork and could solitary infiltrate and hurt a count of common soldier operational scheme in the larboard , ” Mohammad Rastad , Iran ’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development , say on Sunday , fit in to Ilna News and the Fars News Agency . Rastad say the plan of attack was occur from outside the res publica but did not cater any advance data . The lieutenant pastor did not indicate if it was a foreign governing or a financially propel cybercrime radical that have a bun in the oven out the incidental . This is the indorse clock time that Iranian official articulate that a extraneous cyber - approach did not scathe information processing system organisation . The US impart cyber - flack in June 2019 with the design of weaken Iran ’s rocket engine and projectile scheme after Persian drive take down a US poke . The politics in Tehran traverse that they win , as account in US newsprint .