Atlanta airport website back up amid reports of hacking group targeting others airports

ATLANTA — Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport says its website is running again after it was down Monday morning.

While officials say they are still investigating, ABC News reports that there was a Russian cyberattack on multiple US airport websites.

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Travelers who jumped online this morning hoping to check TSA wait times or parking got only an error message.

It appeared the issues had been resolved around 10 a.m. with airport officials tweeting out that the website was back up and running. The tweet was taken down but reposted around 12:40 p.m.

Airport officials said that at no time were airport operations impacted and that they are investigating the outage.

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ABC News confirmed with a senior administration officials that some of the nation’s largest airports have been targeted for cyber attacks today by an attacker within the Russian federation.

Importantly, the systems targeted do not handle air traffic control, internal airline communications/coordination or transportation security.

In 2018, the city of Atlanta was hit by a cyberattack that crippled government functions. At the time, Hartsfield-Jackson responded by temporarily shutting down its Wi-Fi.

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Atlanta airport website down amid reports of hacking group targeting others airports

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