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Berlin Airport Disruptions Persist After Collins Aerospace Ransomware Attack

About 20 Collins specialists are rebuilding critical systems; manual processing continues with no restoration date.

Overview

  • BER reports an ongoing exceptional situation more than a week after the breach, with continued delays and selected cancellations.
  • By midday Sunday, the airport had canceled eight arrivals and six departures out of roughly 600 flights planned for about 88,000 passengers.
  • The attack struck vendor Collins Aerospace, affected multiple European airports, involved ransomware, and led to a reported arrest in the United Kingdom.
  • Check-in, boarding and baggage systems at BER remain offline, while online check-in and self-service kiosks largely function as workarounds.
  • A provisional baggage solution is operating as systems are rebuilt from scratch, with ENISA-linked reporting pointing to unpatched Oracle GlassFish vulnerabilities.