Hackers allegedly destroyed Aeroflot Airlines’ IT infrastructure in year-long attack

Russia’s Aeroflot, one of the world’s oldest airlines, has been left scrambling after pro-Ukraine hackers claimed to have “completely destroyed” the carrier’s internal IT infrastructure in a stealthy, year-long campaign.

The groups, known as “Silent Crow” and Belarusian counterpart “Cyber Partisans BY,” said they gained deep-tier access to systems ranging from booking platforms to executive e-mail, culminating in the erasure of roughly 7,000 servers and the theft of at least 20 TB of flight logs, passenger data, and internal communications.

Aeroflot publicly cited an unspecified “information-system failure” early Monday as it cancelled 42 domestic and regional flights out of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, leaving terminals jammed with frustrated travelers. 

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