\u201cLarge data attack\u201d did not leak any customer information and safety was unaffected,\u201d says Japanese airline
\n Tokyo
\nJapan Airlines (JAL) said its systems were up and running again after a cyberattack on Thursday caused delays to domestic and international flights.
\n\u201cWe have identified the cause and scope of the malfunction, and the system has been restored,\u201d said the airline, Japan\u2019s second biggest after All Nippon Airways (ANA).
\nThe \u201clarge data attack\u201d did not leak any customer information and safety was unaffected, JAL said in a post on social media platform X.
\nJapanese media said it may have been a so-called \u201cDistributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)\u201d attack aimed at overwhelming and disrupting a website or server.
\nTicket sales for domestic and international flights departing on Thursday were suspended during the incident but have now resumed, JAL said.
\nAlthough the cyberattack did not cause major disruption, the airline earlier said that 24 domestic flights had been delayed by more than half an hour.
\nProblems with the carrier\u2019s baggage check-in system caused delays at several Japanese airports, local media said.
\nJAL shares fell as much as 2.5% in morning trade after the news emerged, before recovering. Its stocks were down 0.2% in the afternoon.
\n\u2018Human error\u2019
\nSeparately, a transport ministry committee tasked with probing a fatal January 2024 collision involving a JAL passenger jet released an interim report on Wednesday blaming human error for the incident that killed five people.
\nThe collision at Tokyo\u2019s Haneda Airport was with a coast guard plane carrying six crew members \u2014 of whom five were killed \u2014 that was on a mission to deliver relief supplies to a quake-hit central region of Japan.
\nAccording to the report, the smaller plane\u2019s pilot mistook an air traffic control officer\u2019s instructions to mean authorisation had been given to enter the runway.
\nThe captain was also \u201cin a hurry\u201d at the time because the coast guard plane\u2019s departure was 40 minutes behind schedule, the report said.
\nThe traffic controller failed to notice the plane had intruded onto the runway, oblivious even to an alarm system warning against its presence.
\nAll 379 people on board the JAL Airbus escaped just before the aircraft was engulfed in flames.
\nJapan Airlines is just the latest Japanese firm to be hit by a cyberattack.
\nThe country\u2019s space agency JAXA was targeted in 2023, although no sensitive information about rockets or satellites was accessed.
\nThe same year one of Japan\u2019s busiest ports was hit by a ransomware attack blamed on the Russia-based Lockbit group.
\nIn 2022, a cyberattack at a Japanese automotive manufacturer\u2019s supplier forced the top-selling automaker to halt operations at domestic plants.
\nAnd more recently, the popular Japanese video-sharing website Niconico came under a large cyberattack in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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