United Airlines hacked? - 3,500 aircraft affected

Impetus · 08-07-2015 03:10PM #1

United Airlines has to postpone/cancel about 3,500 flights today due to a computer issue. One wonders if they were hacked? This is the second failure of systems for United over about a month or so.

An enemy nation trying its hacking technology on one company -- perhaps with a view to grounding all major airlines. Countries like the US have a lot of enemies.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102789598

All the airline would say was that it experienced a "network connectivity issue". The grounding events took place after United offered 1,000,000 frequent flyer to anybody who could hack their system. Call it a death wish to putting ideas into peoples' minds.

trout · 09-07-2015 02:52PM

"An issue with a router degraded network connectivity for various applications, causing this morning’s operational disruption. We fixed the router issue, which is enabling us to restore normal functions."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/08/router_failure_united_airlines_flights/

United Airlines hacked? - 3,500 aircraft affected

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