Lufthansa cancels over 200 flights due to IT failure
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Today, February 15, Lufthansa had to cancel several hundred flights in Frankfurt due to IT failure. According to airport operator Fraport, more than 200 flights were canceled and about 100 were delayed due to the disruption in the morning.
The airline said the failure was due to damage to a fiber optic cable running along the railroad during construction work to expand it. As a result, the check-in, boarding, etc. systems at Frankfurt Airport stopped working. Lufthansa said that their work will be restored by Wednesday evening. Since Lufthansa’s global flight control center is located exactly at Frankfurt Airport, the failure also affected systems in other parts of the world, but not so significantly.
In the evening, Russian media and Telegram channels reported that the Lufthansa information system had been hacked by hackers from the pro-Russian group Killnet. The group’s founder, Killmilk, reported “Gazete.ru”that the hackers “killed the corporate network of Lufthansa employees with 3 million fat data packet requests per second.” He claims that the attack was a response to the decision of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to transfer Leopard tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Lufthansa shares fell 2.2% on Wednesday.
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