ATLANTA — Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport's website was disrupted Monday after Russian hackers attacked multiple airport websites, according to CNN.
Thankfully, the news outlet reports there were no signs of impact to air travel in Atlanta.
The attacks followed a call by a shadowy group of pro-Russian hackers that calls itself Killnet for coordinated denial-of-service attacks on the targets. The group published a target list on its Telegram channel.
“We noticed this morning that the external website was down, and our IT and security people are in the process of investigating,” said Andrew Gobeil, a spokesman for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. “There has been no impact on operations.”
CNN said that a total of 14 U.S. airport websites were offline due to the cyber attack.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Transportation Security Administration said the agency is monitoring the issue and working with airport partners, CNN reports.
Last week, a group of hackers claimed responsibility for cyberattacks against state government websites across the country.
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