Europe, Heathrow Airport and Cyberattack
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A large-scale cyber attack on Collins Aerospace, a key provider of airline check-in and boarding technology, has thrown passenger operations into chaos at several of Europe’s busiest airports.
Heathrow was among several European airports hit by delays on Saturday after a cyber-attack affecting an electronic check-in and baggage system. The airport said a number of flights were delayed as a "technical issue" impacted software provided to several airlines.
An incident at Collins Aerospace shut down the cloud back-end for its cMUSE platform this weekend, crippling kiosks and forcing manual fallback at Heathrow, Berlin, and Brussels.
Dublin Airport operator daa has said there is currently no timeline set for a fix to be implemented following a Europe-wide cyber attack last weekend which is impacting check-in and boarding systems at Terminal 2.