Cyberattack Disrupts Seattle Airport for Days, affecting Labor Day Weekend Rush
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) is still suffering from a cyberattack where there have been no mass flight delays or cancellations due to the outages.The outages began early Saturday and took down several systems, including the Port of Seattle websites. Total details of the outage was not immediately available, but email and phone systems were also down Saturday. The attack took down screens in the terminals, baggage systems, crashed websites. The Seattle Times reported that some airlines have been forced to manually sort more than 8,000 bags and hand write boarding passes. The Sea-Tac Airport website and app remained unavailable Monday, and flight information displays only came back online Wednesday.
UPDATE April 2025: This week, the Port of Seattle revealed that the ransomware attack impacted 90,000 people. The Port started notifying impacted individuals after their personal information was compromised.
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- Port of Seattle is notifying 90,000 people of a data breach after personal data was stolen in a ransomware attack in August 2024.
- Port of Seattle shares details of a cyberattack
- The Port of Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport say they’ve been hit by ‘possible cyberattack’
- Ransomware Group Behind Seattle Airport Attack
- Port of Seattle Updates
- Seattle Airport Working Through Cyber Incident
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