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Panic reigns at international airports: computer systems passenger check-in, baggage check and many other vital functions suddenly collapsed.
Here’s what the U.S. radio reports HalTurnerRadioShow:
Tens of thousands of passengers of many world airlines suffered from crashes in computer programs because suddenly by unknown reason people registration systems failed and baggage. Such problems are reported to us from airports today. Gatwick London, Reagan Washington, Charles de Gaulle Paris, Johannesburg Zurich, Changi Singaporea and many others. Cause the failure has not yet been clarified, since it is global, i.e. world.
And this is a comment in connection with the incident. Gatwick Airport spokeswoman:
This problem is not our terminal, airlines in whole. Moreover, as far as I know, this strange “virus” hit computer systems of many airlines. May have occurred cyber attack …
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Unfortunately, many airlines in the world use the same Passenger and baggage registration software, and because if it’s actually a cyber attack, then the hackers were pretty easy to paralyze air traffic around the world: enough bring down one single program …
