Hackers take Copenhagen Airport website offline in 'massive' attack

The reason for the attack was not clear, although hackers with political motives often use so-called denial of service attacks to take websites offline for a short period of time by overwhelming the platform with a massive number of requests. — Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash

COPENHAGEN: Cybercriminals paralysed the website of Copenhagen airport on Sunday with what airport officials described on their Facebook page as a "massive hacker attack."

Passengers flying into or from the Danish capital were asked to instead use a smartphone app to get updates on their flights after the website was forced offline by what Danish news agency Ritzau reported was a denial of service attack.