Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-10-10 00:00:00
Affected organization: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Protest
Actor: Killnet
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: The pro-Russian hacktivist group 'KillNet' claims large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites of several major airports in the U.S., making them unaccessible.