UK Arrests Man During European Airports Cyberattack Probe
Passengers at check-in desks, after a cyberattack caused an outage to key airline check-in systems, at Berlin Brandenburg Airport, on Sept. 22.
Photographer: Yen Duong/BloombergThe UK’s National Crime Agency has arrested a man during its investigation into a cyberattack that disrupted check-ins and delayed flights at several major European airports over the weekend.
The NCA arrested a man in his forties in West Sussex, a county in the south of England, on suspicion of offenses under the UK’s Computer Misuse Act, the agency said in a statement Wednesday. He has been released on conditional bail, it added.