The IT disruptions at various German airports have a purely technical cause. The Ministry of the Interior in Berlin announced this on Saturday. There are no signs of a hacker attack or other IT security incident.
The cause was a malfunction in an information system of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). The error was located “in the IT network hardware area,” the report said. It will probably take a few days before it is finally resolved.
The disruptions mainly affected entries from countries outside the Schengen area where border controls are required, as well as departures to such countries. In some cases, passport checks had to be carried out manually. There were waiting times and sometimes long lines.
The disruptions took place on Friday at the airports of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (see video above). In one case, 450 passengers had to wait in the terminal. Machines could not be shipped.
The first airports gave the green light around 6 p.m. “The BKA is working hard with its partner authorities to restore normal operations and find the causes,” a spokesperson said.
Source: Krone
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