Electronic attack causes disturbance in major European airports, including Heathrow – National

A Electronic attack Officials said that targeting arrival systems and climbing to climb has disrupted air traffic and caused delay in many major airports in Europe on Saturday, although the initial impact appears to be limited.

The disturbances in the initially reported electronic systems in Brussels, Berlin Brandenburg London Heathrow Airports mean that only manual checkpoint and climb were possible. He said many other European airports have not been affected by their operations.

“There was an electronic attack on Friday evening, September 19, against the service provider of check -in systems and climbing to several European airports, including Brussels Airport,” Brussels Airport said in a statement.

The airports said that the case focused on the provider of the check-in systems and the rise to the rise-not the airlines or airports themselves.

Collins Aerospace, who helps passenger systems to verify themselves, prints the climbs to bags and sends their luggage from a kiosk, “a” associated online disruption “of the Muse program (multi -user user system) in” selected airports “.

With the passage of today, the repercussions seemed to be present.

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A spokesman for the Brussels Lechli Airport told Broadcaster VTM that by mid -morning, nine flights were canceled, and four were re -directed to another airport and 15 of the delay for an hour or more. She said it was not immediately clear how long the disturbances may continue.

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“By late morning,” Axel Schmidt, head of communications at Brandenburg Airport, said. Berlin Airport said that the operators had cut contacts with affected systems.

Heathrow, the most crowded European airports, said that the turmoil was “little” with the absence of the flying directly associated with the problems of Collins. The spokesperson will not provide details about the number of flights that were delayed as a result of the electronic attack.

The airports advised passengers to check their journey and apologize for any inconvenience.

“It is actively working to solve the problem and restore the full functions of our customers as quickly as possible.”

He said in a statement, “The effect on electronic connection to communications is limited to the introduction of luggage and can be diluted with manual checkpoints,” he said in a statement.

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