The web pages of several German airports were the object of “cyberattacks” this Thursday, making it impossible to access them, their operators told AFP.
“Our website is currently inaccessible“, explained a spokeswoman for the Düsseldorf 1 airport in western Germany, the fourth largest in the country.
He nuremberg airport (South) also claimed to have been affected, one of its spokespersons told AFP that “the hypothesis of an attack” was being considered.
“We suspect a hack“, indicated the airport of Dortmund, in the west of Germany.
Apparently, it would be an operation of the “DDoS” (Distributed Denial of Service) type, through which a system receives such a large amount of simultaneous access requests that ends up being rendered useless due to overload, these sources indicated.
The Hannover (centre) and Baden-Baden (west) airports they were also affected by cyberattacks, according to the German press. Erfurt airport (center) as well, according to him.
The web pages of most of these airports were still not working this Thursday around 1:00 p.m. GMT, an AFP journalist verified.
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According to the German weekly Der Spiegel, the operation would be the work of a “group of Russian activists” who claimed responsibility for the attack.
In recent years, Germany has been the target of several cyberattacks blamed on Russia, including one in 2015 against the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, and the services of former head of government Angela Merkel.