Japan Airlines (JAL) has reported being hit with a cyber attack, causing delays to some flights, Al Jazeera reported.
The airline has been experiencing “malfunctions in systems communicating with external systems” since shortly before 7:30 am local time (23:30 GMT, Wednesday), it said on Thursday.
JAL temporarily isolated a router that was causing the disruption shortly before 9:00 am and is currently “checking the status of the system recovery”, the Tokyo-based airline said.
“We have identified the scope of the impact and are currently checking the status of the system recovery,” it said.
The airlines added that there were delays to both domestic and international flights and that it had suspended ticket sales for all services scheduled for Thursday.
More than a dozen flights were delayed at several Japanese airports, but there were no mass cancellations.
All Nippon Airways, JAL’s main rival, said that it had not been affected by any cyber incidents and that services were operating as normal.
Earlier, American Airlines briefly grounded all flights on Christmas Eve after experiencing a technical glitch involving its network hardware.
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