sites that could succumb to similar DDoS strikes, include sea terminals and logistics facilities, weather monitoring centers, health care systems, subway systems, and exchanges and online trading systems. In an earlier post on Monday, Killnet noted other vulnerable U.S. in Atlanta, authorities said ATL.com was "up and running after an incident early this morning that made it inaccessible to the public." But people on Twitter continued to complain about parts of the site being inaccessible for several hours after the announcement had been made.Ītlanta airport officials said no airport operations had been impacted. Officials have also notified the FBI and the Transportation Security Administration.īy about 1 p.m. She added that the airport's information technology team has restored all services and is investigating the cause. No internal airport systems were compromised and there were no operational disruptions," a spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. "The service interruption was limited to portions of the public facing website only. In a statement, LAX officials told NPR that was partially disrupted early Monday morning.
It was not immediately clear how many of the airports were actually hit and whether all victims' sites suffered any disruptions. The group's call to action included airports across the country, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, and Missouri. The group posted a list of airports on Telegram, urging hackers to participate in what's known as a DDoS attack - a distributed denial-of-service caused when a computer network is flooded by simultaneous data transmissions. The cyberattacks claimed by Killnet impacted the websites for Los Angeles International, Chicago O'Hare, and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta, among others. airport websites on Monday, though there appeared to be no impact on flight operations.
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