The airline Japan Airlines was the target of a computer attack on Thursday. “It is likely that this will have an impact on flight operations,” leading in particular to delays, she said. She halted ticket sales for the rest of the day.
“We can confirm that we have been victims of a cyberattack and that we are dealing with the situation,” said a spokesperson for Japan’s second largest airline.
JAL reported on the social network
“The cause of the failure has been identified and addressed […] We are currently checking the system's recovery status,” she added later. Ticket sales were halted for domestic and international flights departing Thursday, she said.
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At least nine domestic flights and several international flights have already suffered delays, several local media report.
Serial hacks
The value of JAL shares lost up to 2.5% in the morning on the Tokyo stock exchange before recovering slightly. Around 3:00 a.m. (in Switzerland), it fell by 1.3% in a market trending upwards.
This is the latest cyberattack in a long series against Japanese companies and agencies. At the end of 2023, the Japanese space agency (JAXA) announced that it had suffered “unauthorized access”, admitting that the security of part of its data had been “compromised”.
In July of the same year, the port of Nagoya (center), the most important in the archipelago in terms of traffic, was paralyzed by a ransomware attack, which was attributed to the Russian-speaking group LockBit.
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And Japan's cybersecurity agency (NISC) itself was infiltrated by hackers for up to nine months, according to media reports.
In February 2022, the world's largest automobile manufacturer, Toyota, was forced to suspend all of its production in the country for a day due to a cyberattack affecting one of its suppliers.
More recently, in June, the very popular Japanese online video-sharing site Niconico had to temporarily suspend its services due to a large-scale hack, its operator said.
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