Cyber attacks leads to blank screens at Bristol Airport

The BBC is reporting that a cyber attack at Bristol Airport led to failure in flight display screens for two days.

An airport spokesman said the information screens were taken offline early on Friday to contain an attack similar to so-called “ransomware”…

The spokesman said no “ransom” had been paid to get the systems working again…

Spokesman James Gore said: “We believe there was an online attempt to target part of our administrative systems and that required us to take a number of applications offline as a precautionary measure, including the one that provides our data for flight information screens.

“That was done to contain the problem and avoid any further impact on more critical systems.”

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