The German Foreign Ministry commented on the failure of police systems at airports

A large-scale disruption in the work of police computer systems that occurred the previous day at German airports was not the result of a cyberattack. This was reported on January 4 by the DPA news agency with reference to a representative of the German Foreign Ministry.

There reported that there are no signs of a hacker attack or IT-security incident.

It is noted that the failure occurred in the system, which is managed by the federal criminal police department.

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The day before, the computer system of the German Federal Police failed en masse at airports across the country. The system in question was the one used for entry control. It was specified that it was temporarily impossible to enter Germany from a non-Schengen zone.

It was later reported that the problem had been fixed. The glitch led to massive border control delays at several German airports, among them: the airport of Dusseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, as well as Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt. According to the Izvestia correspondent, passengers from non-Schengen countries stood in hours-long queues, and some airports canceled flights.