News / SpiceJet's woes continue as ransomware attack delays flights

Indian low-cost and freighter airline SpiceJet – already caught up in several challenges – has become the latest casualty of a cyber attack.

Reports said the cyber attack was detected last night, which threw this morning’s flight schedules across the country out of whack.

“Certain SpiceJet systems faced an attempted ransomware attack last night that has impacted our flight operations,” a spokesperson for the airline said, when contacted by The Loadstar.

“While our IT team has, to a large extent, contained and rectified the ...