The passenger management system at not affected the safety of air transport, the Federal Information Technology Safety Agency (BSI) assured, but without giving further information on the attack manager.
According to the same service, in many German airports-including it-the check-in process of passengers is still manually, without the use of electronic systems.
The cyberattack of the Collins Aerospace, which took place yesterday at 22:00 (local time), has been causing significant delays in boarding passengers at all German airports.
The problems faced by airports
Berlin Airport, according to a statement,. “The airport itself was not the goal of the attack and was only implicitly influenced. For passengers, however, this still involves waiting for check-in and boarding, “the Berlin/Brandenburg management body said, noting that many flights were able to take off without delay.
“We are trying to use paper and pencil to control the data, so it all takes more time,” a spokesman for the airport said and clarified that the electronic check-in remains normally in operation.
The airports of Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Hanover, Dresden, Leipzig/Halle, Düsseldorf, Bremen and Bonn/Cologne reported earlier today that they were not affected by the attack, while the attack was not affected.
