A suspected hacker attack is destabilizing Russia's state airline Aeroflot: even the day after Monday's attack, there were still several flight cancellations at Moscow airport. As of 9 a.m. on Tuesday, there had been "selective cancellations," announced the majority state-owned company the day after the cyberattack.
After that, the airline's own flight schedule began to stabilize. A total of 216 out of 233 return flights were scheduled. Dozens of Flights Canceled Russian news agency Interfax reported, citing the online announcement from the airport, that Aeroflot had canceled 22 outbound flights from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and 31 inbound flights to the capital. These included both Aeroflot’s own flights and those operated by its subsidiary, Rossiya.
Dozens of the airline’s flights had already been canceled the previous day. Aeroflot initially offered a visibly vague explanation for the disruptions, blaming an unspecified IT systems outage. Pro-Ukrainian hacker groups Silent Crow and Cyberpartisans BY claimed that, after a year of preparation, they carried out an operation against the airline, destroying data on 7,000 servers and taking control of the entire IT infrastructure. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the news as alarming.
