Update, December 27, 2024: This story, first published on December 26, now includes a statement through a spokesman for Japan Airlines with respect to Christmas Day after Christmas.
Japan Airlines has shown that it was the victim of a December 26 cyberattack that behind more than 20 domestic flights, although it is understood that the scenario is now under control and there has never been an effect on flight safety. we know.
The attack on the internal and external PC systems of Japan’s airlines early the next morning and continued for several hours. “Jal ticket sales for domestic and foreign battles planned for departure have been suspended,” said a report via the Associated Press, the airline pointing the finger in the direction of a distributed denial of service.
Kyodo News said Japan Airlines had reported that “no non -public data had been revealed and that no damage had passed through the PC viruses,” after the cyber attack. The publication also indicated that Japan Post C. had indicated that mail deliveries and plots were affected through the disturbances of the flights of the cyber airlines in Japan.
Japan’s lead cabinet secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said at a press conference that the Ministry of Transport had “asked JAL to fix its formula as soon as imaginable to respond appropriately to affected customers. “
A DDoS attack can be effective by employing multiple compromised PC systems to initiate an overload of traffic, with machines exploited, adding Internet of Things devices. “From a higher level,” Cloudflare describes a DDoS attack as “like an unforeseen traffic packet that clogs the Topway, preventing normal traffic from reaching its destination. “
I contacted Japan Airlines to obtain an official statement: “We row any inconvenience caused to our consumers and similar parts,” said a Jal spokesman: “The disturbance of the network caused the reception of a large amount of knowledge of a knowledge of a External source, which led to formula dysfunctions basically related to operations.
Currently, there are no indications of who the attack was or what is the explanation of why it could have been.
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