UK arrest over cyber-attack that hit Heathrow and European airports

The National Crime Agency said the arrest was a ‘positive step’. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

A man has been arrested in the UK in connection with the cyber-attack that disrupted flights at London Heathrow and several other European airports last weekend.

The National Crime Agency said it had arrested a man in his 40s in West Sussex as part of an investigation into the incident affecting Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in desk technology for airlines.