ABC News reported that some of the country’s largest airports were targeted with cyberattacks on Monday by an entity inside Russia.
A source said that the systems that were targeted at airports do not deal with air traffic control, internal coordination of airlines, or transportation security.
But cyber-attacks have “blocked public access” to public web domains that report airport wait times and congestion.
The attacks were first reported around 3 a.m. ET when the Airports Authority informed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that the LaGuardia Airport system had been infected.
Systems have been restored at the airport, but other airports across the country have been similarly attacked.
The websites of Des Moines International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Chicago O’Hare International Airport were affected Monday morning.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport reported at approximately 10:30 a.m. ET that its site was operating in reserve and that “operations at the airport were not affected by operations at any time.”
“Early this morning, the FlyLAX.com website was partially down,” Los Angeles Airport said in a statement to ABC News.
And “the service outage was limited to a segment of the public that deals with the website only, while the internal airport systems were not exposed to danger and there were no operational disturbances.”
Engineers and programmers are actively working to fill in the technical vulnerabilities that allowed the attacks and to support the most critical computing infrastructure.
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