Japan Airlines hit by cyber attack, delaying some flights
Al Jazeera
JAL says it has suspended ticket sales for all services on Thursday following incident.
Japan Airlines (JAL) has reported being hit with a cyber attack, causing delays to some flights.
The airline has been experiencing “malfunctions in systems communicating with external systems” since shortly before 7:30am local time (23:30 GMT, Wednesday), JAL said on Thursday.
JAL temporarily isolated a router that was causing the disruption shortly before 9am and is currently “checking the status of the system recovery”, the Tokyo-based airline said.
“We have identified the scope of the impact and are currently checking the status of the system recovery,” JAL said.
The airline added that there were delays to both domestic and international flights and that it had suspended ticket sales for all services scheduled for Thursday.
