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Hacker attack on the Airports of Brussels, London and Berlin: deleted flights and hundreds of delays
Published on September 20, 2025
Brussels, 20 September 2025 - Canceled flights and delays for a computer attack that hit the airports of Brussels, Heathrow in London and Berlin.The hackers targeted a service provider responsible for check-in and boarding systems, Collins Aerospace.The company told the France Presse agency that the problem affected "its Muse software" and that it was activated to solve it.
The first to report the malfunction of its automated systems was the company that manages the airport of the Belgian capital, forced to manually perform the procedures necessary to start the passengers with the result that, in the middle of the day, there were over 100 late flights and 9 deleted.
Chaos at the Check-in area of Brussels airport after the hacker attack (ANSA)
Repercussions also in the London airport of Heathrow, where - always in the middle of the day - more than 140 delays recorded arriving and departing, while 4 were deleted.A spokesperson for the airport confirmed that the supplier was "finding a technical problem that could cause delays for departure passengers", without however mentioning a computer attack.
In the meantime, Berlin airport, in Germany, also explained in a note on its website that "Check-in waiting times are longer" due to a "technical problem with a systems supplier, operational throughout Europe".
The long tail to the check-in of Terminal 1 of Berdenburg Airport 'Willy-Brandt' (ANSA)
Very contained inconveniences in Fiumicino, but the company that manages the airports of Rome (therefore also that of Ciampino) has made it known that the hacker attack does not concern the capital's airports.No problem also at the Milanese airports of Linate and Malpensa, which in December 2024 had been affected by a cyber-attack on the portals dedicated to the public.From what is learned, however, from the early hours of this morning the CNAPIC, a national computer anti -crime center for the protection of critical infrastructures, is in constant contact with ENAV and ENAC to monitor any cyber threats to the national air system.