Hackers Just Added a New Reason Why Your Flight Can Be Delayed

LOT airlines was hacked grounding 10 flights and delaying others validating growing concerns about the vulnerability of the airline industry.
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Hackers Just Added a New Reason Why Your Flight Can Be Delayed
Cindy Drukier
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LOT airlines, Poland’s flagship carrier, was attacked by hackers on Sunday, June 21, grounding 10 flights and causing 12 others to be delayed at Warsaw’s Chopin Airport. About 1,400 passengers were affected.

The company posted to its Facebook page that the hack targeted computer systems used to issue flight plans:

Today afternoon we encountered IT attack, that affected our ground operation systems. As a result we're not able to create flight plans.
— LOT Polish Airlines
Cindy Drukier
Cindy Drukier
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Cindy Drukier is a veteran journalist, editor, and producer. She's the host of NTD's International Reporters Roundtable featured on EpochTV, and perviously host of NTD's The Nation Speaks. She's also an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her two films are available on EpochTV: "Finding Manny" and "The Unseen Crisis"
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