{"id":157498,"date":"2025-09-24T12:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157498\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:35:12","slug":"man-arrested-in-uk-over-alleged-cyberattack-that-affected-european-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157498\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in UK over alleged cyberattack that affected European airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONDON &#8212; A man in his 40s was arrested in southern England over <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-airports-cyberattack-29b6d890baf7ac3a22f0f2b2f169b890\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an alleged cyberattack<\/a> that disrupted several European airports in recent days, including at London Heathrow, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The U.K.&#8217;s National Crime Agency said the suspect was held in West Sussex on Tuesday on suspicion of offenses involving the misuse of computers and was released on conditional bail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cAlthough this arrest is a positive step, the investigation into this incident is in its early stages and remains ongoing,&#8221; said Paul Foster, head of the NCA\u2019s national cybercrime unit. \u201cCybercrime is a persistent global threat that continues to cause significant disruption to the U.K.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Starting late Friday and lasting through the weekend, airports in Berlin, Brussels and London were hit by disruptions to electronic systems that snarled up check-in and sent airline staffers trying options like handwriting boarding passes or using backup laptops. Many other European airports were unaffected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cyberattack affected the software of Collins Aerospace, whose systems help passengers check in, print boarding passes and bag tags, and dispatch their luggage. The U.S.-based company on Saturday cited a \u201ccyber-related disruption\u201d to its software at &#8220;select\u201d airports in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was not immediately clear who might be behind the cyberattack, but experts said it could turn out to be hackers, criminal organizations or state actors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The European Commission, the executive branch of the 27-nation European Union, said aviation safety and air traffic control were unaffected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON &#8212; A man in his 40s was arrested in southern England over an alleged cyberattack that disrupted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[71913,233,924,11182,59,232,57,58,18584,50,4863,86,56,54,55,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-157498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-71913","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-cybercrime","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-greatbritain","16":"tag-law-enforcement","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-software","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom","23":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}