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Düsseldorf airport and two other Gernan airports faced disruption (File photo: AFP)
The affected airports are Düsseldorf, Nuremberg and Dortmund. However, the websites of Germany’s largest airports – Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin – were reportedly operating normally.
The websites of at least three German airports were disrupted on Thursday, a day after a major technical glitch at Lufthansa Airlines. reuters,
The affected airports are Düsseldorf, Nuremberg and Dortmund. However, the websites of Germany’s largest airports – Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin – were reportedly operating normally.
“We are troubleshooting”, said a spokesman for Dortmund Airport, adding that it was unlikely that the failure was due to a routine overload.
“There is reason to suspect this may be a hacker attack,” the spokesman said. reuters,
Focus Online, which initially reported the outage, did not give a reason for the problem.
Spiegel Online reported that the problems could be caused by a DDoS attack, where high volumes of Internet traffic are directed to target servers by so-called “hacktivists” in a relatively unsophisticated bid to knock them offline.
The day before, Lufthansa was forced to cancel more than 200 flights in Frankfurt alone, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
Lufthansa blamed botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables for the outage on Wednesday.
(With Reuters inputs)
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