Airport Operations Intact
The Port Authority told the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that the LaGuardia Airport (LGA) system had been attacked around 3 a.m. ET. LaGuardia has been reopened, but other airports across the country have been targeted since.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport reported around 10:30 a.m. ET that its site is back up and running and that “at no time were operations at the airport impacted.” At the time of this writing, the ATL website is still down (see image below).
“Early this morning, the FlyLAX.com website was partially disrupted,” LAX said in a statement to ABC News. “The service interruption was limited to portions of the public-facing FlyLAX.com website only. No internal airport systems were compromised and there were no operational disruptions.”
Engineers and programmers began work to close the backdoors that enabled the attacks and to secure more crucial computer systems.
Featured image: Atlanta International Airport. Photo: By redlegsfan21 from Vandalia, OH, United States – Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport,
DALLAS – A Russian cyber attack has targeted the websites of airports in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Des Moines. The attack did not affect airport operations, only their websites.
Monday morning, the websites for Des Moines International Airport (DSM), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) all looked to be down.
A source person briefed on the matter told ABC News that an attacker within the Russian Federation targeted some of the country’s busiest airports for cyberattacks on Monday. The targeted systems do not handle air traffic control, internal airline communications, and coordination, or read more ⇒
Source:: “Airways Magazine”