Edited By: Revathi Hariharan
Last Updated: February 16, 2023, 18:47 IST
Dusseldorf Airport and two different Gernan airpots confronted disruptions (File Photo: AFP)
Among the affected airports are Dusseldorf, Nuremberg and Dortmund. However, the web sites of Germany’s greatest airports – in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin – have been reportedly working usually.
A day after a serious tech meltdown at Lufthansa Airlines, the web sites of no less than three German airports have been disrupted on Thursday, based on Reuters.
Among the affected airports are Dusseldorf, Nuremberg and Dortmund. However, the web sites of Germany’s greatest airports – in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin – have been reportedly working usually.
“We are troubleshooting”, said a spokesperson for Dortmund airport, adding that it was unlikely that the failure was due to a regular overload.
“There is reason to suspect it could be a hacker attack,” the spokesperson instructed Reuters.
Focus Online, which initially reported the outage, gave no motive for the issue.
Spiegel Online reported that the issues may have been attributable to a DDoS assault, the place excessive volumes of web site visitors are directed to focused servers in a comparatively unsophisticated bid by so-called “hacktivists” to knock them offline.
The disruptions come a day after Lufthansa was forced to cancel more than 200 flights in Frankfurt alone on Wednesday leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
Lufthansa blamed botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables for the outage on Wednesday.
(With Reuters Inputs)
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