German airport websites go down

BERLIN (AP) — The websites of several German airports were taken down on Thursday after a possible cyberattack, according to German news agency dpa.

The service disruptions do not appear to have had an immediate impact on the country’s air traffic, the agency noted.

Nuremberg Airport in southern Germany reported that its website received so many service requests that it crashed. The websites of Düsseldorf and Dortmund airports in the west of the country were also unavailable, dpa said.

In eastern Germany, the Erfurt-Weimar airport website was down. The airport’s Internet service provider was checking whether it was a cyberattack, the news agency added.

Frankfurt Airport had to temporarily divert all flights leaving the country’s busiest airport on Wednesday after a glitch in Lufhtansa’s IT system caused by construction work.