Russia’s Aeroflot airline has cancelled 49 round-trip flights to and from Moscow due to an IT system failure, the air carrier reported. The press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia said that the airline’s information systems were brought down by a hacker attack.
The carrier warned of adjustments to its flight schedule, including delays and cancellations. – At present a team of specialists is currently working to quickly restore the normal operation of services. The cause of the failure in the Aeroflot information system was a hacker attack, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia noted.
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Source: TASS News
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