Sunwing Airlines Network Outage Caused by Cyberattack at Jeppesen, Owned by Boeing.
INCIDENT
Sunwing confirmed that its third-party provider, Jeppesen, which offers navigational information, operations planning tools, flight planning products and software, was experiencing technical issues with its products. The glitch caused delays with both northbound and southbound Sunwing flights this week.
Sunwing wasn’t alone – the outage hit “multiple carriers in North America,” the Toronto-based tour operator wrote on its Twitter account on Nov. 2, the day the system failed.
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Type of Malware
No Malware identified
Threat Source
No threat source identified