Oddly specific 'cyber attack' hits Alaskan airline RavnAir and one plane type
A small Alaskan airline has suffered a curiously specific "cyber attack" that mostly affected its De Havilland Dash 8 airliners.
RavnAir Group declared on 21 December that it had "experienced a malicious cyber attack on our company's IT network" the day before, causing it to cancel all of its flights operated with Dash 8s on its RavnAir Alaska airline.
In later statements, the group – which also has two other airlines, PenAir and RavnAirConnect – said it was cancelling a dozen Dash 8 flights before adding that the "this disruption now appears more extensive than initially reported". It has since said it may take "as long as one month to have all affected IT systems fully restored and back to normal" - with additional flight cancellations and delays possible on all three airlines. The Dash 8 cancellations lasted just under 24 hours before the aircraft were back in the sky.
