SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT HACKED. NETWORK CREDENTIALS LEAKED

Although some industries are partially operating, threat actors do not miss the opportunity to generate havoc. According to specialists in a hacking course, a group of cybercriminals successfully managed to attack San Francisco International Airport, extracting access credentials to one of the employees’ Windows system during the attack. Under normal conditions, this is the seventh largest airport with the largest influx of users in the United States. Airport administration is in the process of notifying all potentially exposed users during the incident.

The attack was completed last March by compromising two websites operated by the airport (SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com), mentioning the data breach alert issued by the administration. According to the report, threat actors managed to inject malicious code into the attacked sites to extract the access credentials of the administrators.

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