Flight info screens at Vietnam’s 2 major airports hacked

[Tresbon]

By Associated Press July 29 at 10:43 AM

HANOI, Vietnam — Screens displaying flight information at Vietnam’s two major airports were hacked Friday to contain distorted information about the South China Sea and insult Vietnam and the Philippines, state media reported.

The sound systems at Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City respectively were also affected, forcing airport authorities to switch off the flight information screens and sound system, the online VnExpress said.

The website of the national carrier, Vietnam Airlines, was also briefly hacked, it said.

The paper quoted Vice Minister of Transport Nguyen Nhat as saying the incidents did not affect the security or air traffic control at the airports.

Earlier this month, an international tribunal issued a ruling in favor of the Philippines that invalidated China’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea. Vietnam also has overlapping claims to parts of the sea, which is rich in natural resources.

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[ahojunk]

Hackers hit Vietnam airports with South China Sea messages
Saturday, 30 July 2016 | MYT 12:01 AM

HANOI (Reuters) - Hackers attacked the website of a national airline and flight information screens at Vietnam's two biggest airports on Friday, posting notices that state media said criticised the Philippines and Vietnam and their claims in the South China Sea.

Operators of airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City briefly had to halt electronic check-ins when systems were attacked on Friday afternoon, the country's civil aviation authority said.

The website of Vietnam Airlines was also compromised, directing browsers to what the flag carrier described as "bad websites overseas".

State-run media said the messages were about the South China Sea and denounced Vietnam and the Philippines, which are at odds with Beijing over maritime sovereignty. Vietnamese media said the hack was claimed by a group called 1937CN. Reuters was not able to immediately verify the content of the messages.

The region is on edge, facing diplomatic dilemmas in the wake of a July 12 ruling by an arbitral court that declared Chinese claims to most of the South China Sea as having no legal grounds. Beijing has called the ruling farcical and refuses to recognise it.

The decision was favourable to the plaintiff, Manila, and by extension, Hanoi, which has similar disagreements with China about its island-building and the conduct of its vast coastguard fleet in the South China Sea.

Vietnam's vice transport minister, Nguyen Nhat, said the content displayed by the hackers offended his nation and the Philippines, Thanh Nien news reported, without elaborating.

The report said the same picture was posted on the Vietnam Airlines website, with "distorting content" about the situation in the South China Sea.

(Reporting by Mai Nguyen; writing by Martin Petty; editing by Mark Heinrich)

 

[cirr]

If true, great.

Hit the power grid next time the cowards dare stamp PRC passports with 4-letter word.

 

[Viet]

If true, great.

Hit the power grid next time the cowards dare stamp PRC passports with 4-letter word.

Wanting China to resort to terrorism?

 

[somebozo]

where are the pics?

 

[cirr]

The fourth may want you to self deport back.
This is for your own safety, girl.

Simply ignore the viets, especially those from Nan Viet.

 

[cnleio]

The Chinese hacker must know the airport system very well.

 

[terranMarine]

Use our cyber army to screw these fuckers. Vandalize Chinese passports again and next time more economic losses will be felt.

 

[ebrahym]

lol, keep safe, girl.
It seems that after Paris attack, white can finally protect their citizens from their own Arabic passport holders.

bro we do support u on every stance but keep the trolling to viets only plz

 

[cochine]

Chinese is the hacker.

1937.cn

 

[cnleio]

Could be a Chinese national working for the airport.

Every software engineer working in some airport can do that, they know how to access the system and change API functions to control it as their wish ... the Hacker who r skilled engineers from everywhere & everyjob including the one working in airport or create the airport system.

Hey ~ Take Care, if this is a Chinese national working next time they might hack ur military commad & communication network(system), OFF-Line ...

Chinese is the hacker.

1937.cn

Interesting ... as an engineer writing codes for microprocessor, maybe i should learn some network lessons to be a hacker in my spare time ... i know where's biggest Chinese Hacker Base Forum on the internet.

 

[Mangus Ortus Novem]

Could be flase flag..by the trouble makers... to create tensions and rifts...

How difficult it could be?

 

[cochine]

Cyber-terrorists attack flight info screens at Vietnam's 2 major airports
By http://glp.vietnamairlines.com/ remained until some time later.

According to security expert Nguyen Hong Phuc, the confidential data leaked by the group came from a successful breach of Vietnam Airlines' client database. To minimize risks, Phuc urged Golden Lotus members to change their passwords immediately.

More security officers have been deployed at Noi Bai Airport. Photo by Hai Linh.

The Ministry of Transport has asked the Ministry of Public Security to investigate.

As of May 2015, over 200 Vietnam’s websites had been attacked by groups from China, mostly 1937cn. According to security experts, website 1937cn.net was established to provoke and attack Vietnamese websites.

1937cn is known as the most notorious hacker group in China with over 40,000 attacks launched recently, according to Chinese hacker ranking site hack-cn.com.

On July 12, an international arbitration tribunal ruled in favor of the Philippines, rejecting China's sweeping claim to large swaths of the South China Sea. China has dismissed the ruling as a "farce".

In June of last year, amid territorial disputes in the South China Sea, 1937cn attacked the website of the University of Santo Tomas' Museum of Arts and Sciences in the Philippines, leaving similar provocative messages.

 

[Viet]

Every software engineer working in some airport can do that, they know how to access the system and change API functions to control it as their wish ... the Hacker who r skilled engineers from everywhere & everyjob including the one working in airport or create the airport system.

Hey ~ Take Care, if this is a Chinese national working next time they might hack ur military commad & communication network(system), OFF-Line ...


Interesting ... as an engineer writing codes for microprocessor, maybe i should learn some network lessons to be a hacker in my spare time ... i know where's biggest Chinese Hacker Base Forum on the internet.

Too bad. Vietnam has signed the international convention against torture, otherwise we could take chinese suspects and impose some vietcong style on them. Time again as the Vietcong did similar things against American captives some time ago.

 

[cnleio]

Too bad. Vietnam has signed the international convention against torture, otherwise we could take chinese suspects and impose some vietcong style on them. Time again as the Vietcong did similar things against American captives some time ago.

It's the advanced techs decide the modern war, not vietcong-style my friend.