Tokyo: On Thursday ( Dec. 26 ), Japan Airlines reported a cyberattack that caused delays for both domestic and international flights before later claiming to have discovered and identified the problem.
Problems with the firm’s bag check-in technique had delayed more than a few flights at many Japanese airports, people journalist NHK said, but there were no bulk cancellations or significant disruption.
Japan Airlines ( JAL ) is the country’s second-biggest airline after All Nippon Airways ( ANA ).
” We identified and addressed the issue’s root cause. In a blog on X social media platform, JAL stated that” we are checking the system healing position.”
” Profits for domestic and international flights departing nowadays have been suspended. We apologise for any pain caused”, the article said.
Earlier on Thursday, a JAL spokesperson told AFP the firm had been subjected to a attack.
Network disruption began at 7.24am on Thursday ( 6.24am, Singapore time ), JAL said in a statement.
Therefore “at 8: 56 am, we briefly isolated the network ( a system for exchanging data between systems ) that was causing the disruption”, it added.
JAL stocks fell as much as 2.5 per cent in night business after the announcement emerged, before recovering somewhat.
The airport is just the most recent Asian company to suffer a cyberattack.
No sensitive data about missiles or observatories was accessed, despite Japan’s space agency JAXA reporting in 2023 that it was probable attacked by a cyberattack by unknown institutions.
The same year, Nagoya Port, one of Japan’s busiest, was crippled by a ransom assault that was blamed on Lockbit, a Russia-based crime company.
The agency that oversees defenses against cyberattacks, Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity ( NISC), was reportedly infiltrated by hackers in 2023 for as long as nine months.
The government claimed in 2022 that a attack was the cause of a disturbance at a Toyota dealer, which forced the top-selling automaker to suspend production for a day.
More recently, the famous Japanese video-sharing web Niconico suspended its service in June because it was under a large-scale attack, its controller said.