Russia’s Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights after cyber assault causes IT outage

Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker activist group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans, which opposes the rule of Belarusian chief Alexander Lukashenko, claimed duty for the assault.

The group claimed it had accessed Aeroflot’s company community for a 12 months, copying buyer and inside information, together with audio recordings of telephone calls, information from the corporate’s personal surveillance on staff and different intercepted communications.

“All of those assets at the moment are inaccessible or destroyed and restoring them will presumably require tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. The injury is strategic,” the channel purporting to the Silent Crow group wrote on Telegram. There was no approach to independently confirm its claims.

The identical channel additionally shared screenshots that appeared to point out Aeroflot’s inside IT programs and insinuated that Silent Crow might start sharing the info it had seized within the coming days.

“The non-public information of all Russians who’ve ever flown with Aeroflot have now additionally gone on a visit — albeit with out baggage and to the identical vacation spot,” it mentioned.

Russia’s airports have repeatedly confronted mass delays over the summer season because of Ukrainian drone assaults, with flights grounded amid security issues.