JAL says it has suspended ticket gross sales for all providers on Thursday following incident.
Japan Airways (JAL) has reported being hit with a cyber assault, inflicting delays to some flights.
The airline has been experiencing “malfunctions in methods speaking with exterior methods” since shortly earlier than 7:30am native time (23:30 GMT, Wednesday), JAL stated on Thursday.
JAL quickly remoted a router that was inflicting the disruption shortly earlier than 9am and is at present “checking the standing of the system restoration”, the Tokyo-based airline stated.
“We have now recognized the scope of the affect and are at present checking the standing of the system restoration,” JAL stated.
The airline added that there have been delays to each home and worldwide flights and that it had suspended ticket gross sales for all providers scheduled for Thursday.
Greater than a dozen flights had been delayed at a number of Japanese airports, however there have been no mass cancellations, public broadcaster NHK reported.
All Nippon Airways, JAL’s essential rival, stated that it had not been affected by any cyber incidents and that providers had been working as regular.
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