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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ted Thornhill

It wasn’t hackers: Alaska Airlines reveals IT outage was caused by a critical piece of hardware failing

Alaska Airlines has revealed that its "significant" IT outage on Sunday night was not caused by hackers, but by hardware at one of its data centers failing.

As a result of the system paralysis, the carrier requested a system-wide ground stop for its aircraft and that of its subsidiary, Horizon Air, on Sunday evening, with services resuming about three hours later.

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