Ticket sales stopped
Hackers paralyze Japanese airline
Updated 12/26/2024 – 4:17 amReading time: 1 Min.
Hackers have attacked Japan Airlines’ computers. There were flight delays.
The Japanese airline Japan Airlines (JAL) says it has become the target of a hacker attack. This affected the company’s internal and external systems and led to delays on some domestic and international flights, JAL said on Thursday.
“We identified the cause of the problem at 8:56 a.m. and took action. We are currently reviewing the system recovery status,” the airline wrote on platform X. At Haneda Airport, about a dozen departing flights were delayed by up to 50 minutes . No flights have been canceled so far, the Japan Times reported.
In order to resolve the system failures, a router was temporarily switched off. Ticket sales for flights on Thursday had to be stopped. All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s second-largest airline, has found no signs of an attack on its systems, according to a spokesman.
At the beginning of the week, the US airline American Airlines suspended all flights for an hour due to a technical error in the network hardware. This led to significant travel disruptions for thousands of passengers on Christmas Eve.