Some of Europe’s largest airports, including Heathrow, the region’s busiest, returned normal operations to an automatic check-in system after attending damage caused by hackers a day ago.
Hackers attacked Collins Aerospace, a RTX-owned provider of check-in and boarding systems, which broke operations on Saturday at London’s Heathrow Airport, Berlin Airport and Brussels, where passengers faced long queues, dozens of cancellations and delays.
Airport officials and data show that despite some delays, the disruption was greatly alleviated in the early hours of Sunday, while regional regulators said they were investigating the originals of the hacking incident.
Destruction is the latest attack from a series of hackers to departments from healthcare to automobiles. Automaker Jaguar Land Rover’s violation stopped production, while another caused hundreds of millions of pounds of marks and Spencer losses.
RTX called the incident “network-related disruption” and said it affected its muse software, which was used by several airlines. RTX did not comment immediately Sunday.
Berlin Brandenburg Airport said on Sunday that the problem still exists, but it is working with companies to resolve the issue. It added that the manual workaround is in place and there are currently no major delays or cancellations.
Brussels Airport said in an update to passengers on Sunday that the cyber attacks “has a great impact on flight schedules”, resulting in delays and cancellations of flights.
Heathrow Airport said work was continuing to recover from inspection system disruptions earlier Sunday. It added that “the vast majority of flights continue to operate.”
Analysis of aviation data provider Cirium said Heathrow’s delays were “low” and Berlin’s delays were “medium” and Brussels’ delays had “significant” delays, but they were decreasing.
