{"id":14557,"date":"2024-12-26T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=14557"},"modified":"2024-12-26T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:52:42","slug":"japan-airlines-reports-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/japan-airlines-reports-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Airlines reports cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Japan Airlines on Thursday reported a cyberattack that caused delays to domestic and international flights but later said it had found and addressed the cause.<\/p>\n

Problems with the airline’s baggage check-in system had delayed more than a dozen flights at several Japanese airports, public broadcaster NHK said, but there were no mass cancellations or major disruption.<\/p>\n

Japan Airlines (JAL) is the country’s second-biggest airline after All Nippon Airways (ANA).<\/p>\n

“We identified and addressed the cause of the issue. We are checking the system recovery status,” JAL said in a post on social media platform X.<\/p>\n

“Sales for both domestic and international flights departing today have been suspended. We apologize for any inconvenience caused,” the post said.<\/p>\n

Earlier Thursday, a JAL spokeswoman told AFP the company had been subjected to a cyberattack.<\/p>\n

Network disruption began at 7:24 am on Thursday (2224 GMT Wednesday), JAL said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Then “at 8:56 am, we temporarily isolated the router (a device for exchanging data between networks) that was causing the disruption”, it added.<\/p>\n

JAL shares fell as much as 2.5 percent in morning trade after the news emerged, before recovering slightly.<\/p>\n

The airline is just the latest Japanese firm to be hit by a cyber attack.<\/p>\n

Japan’s space agency JAXA said in 2023 that it was likely penetrated by a cyber attack by unknown entities, but no sensitive information about rockets or satellites was accessed.<\/p>\n

The same year, Nagoya Port, one of Japan’s busiest, was crippled by a ransomware attack that was blamed on Lockbit, a Russia-based cybercrime organisation.<\/p>\n

Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) — the agency responsible for defences against cyberattacks — was itself reportedly infiltrated by hackers in 2023 for as long as nine months.<\/p>\n

In 2022, the government said a cyberattack was behind disruption at a Toyota supplier that forced the top-selling automaker to halt operations at domestic plants for a day.<\/p>\n

More recently, the popular Japanese video-sharing website Niconico suspended its services in June because it was under a large-scale cyberattack, its operator said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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