U. S. Airports were inaccessible after they were targeted by Russian speaking hackers

The websites of quite a dozen U. S. Airports were inaccessible when they were targeted by communicatory hackers. Around 14 public websites for a number of airports, including LaGuardia airport in New York City, were targeted, according to reports. Most have since been brought back online. According to a senior official, air travel was not affected by the incident, but the interruption caused a problem for travelers attempting to access information. Reports attribute the hack to a group known as Kilnut, Russian hackers who support the Kremlin.

 The group favors distributed denial of service attacks, which work by flooding computer servers with traffic to make them nonfunctional targeted. Airports also included Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Atlanta's Heartsville Jackson International Airport. The Los Angeles International Airport website also appeared to be affected by the cyber attack. The authorities are monitoring the issue and assessing affected airports. For more on this, we can go to Susan Taranni, our correspondent who lives in New York City. Susan, what more do we know about this group and what happened during this attack?

Officials first learned about the issue at around 03:00, a.m. Eastern time on Monday, when Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency received word at New York's LaGuardia airport that the system had been hit. According to us. Officials, as you mentioned, it wasn't really air traffic or anything at the airport that was affected, but it was mostly customers that would go online and they would be frustrated that they wouldn't be able to make reservations or go and try to check their status and whatnot. So nuisances like that had been affected a number of airports.

 As of now, we don't know whether or not the Kremlin was directly affected or not, but we do know that the FBI is working with cybersecurity officials to get to the heart of the matter. What's interesting is Chuck Schumer made statements immediately after hearing the word of this, and he connected it, although there is no official connection right now to that blast of a bridge in Ukraine and said that when we see what's happening in that part of the world and disruptions over there, it's no surprise that we see something like this on the part of Russia happening here as well.