{"id":194986,"date":"2025-09-24T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/uk-police-arrest-man-linked-to-ransomware-attack-that-caused-airport-disruptions-in-europe-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:12:38","slug":"uk-police-arrest-man-linked-to-ransomware-attack-that-caused-airport-disruptions-in-europe-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/uk-police-arrest-man-linked-to-ransomware-attack-that-caused-airport-disruptions-in-europe-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police arrest man linked to ransomware attack that caused airport disruptions in Europe | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.K.\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk\/news\/uk-arrest-following-aerospace-cyber-incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> on Wednesday that a man was arrested in connection to the ransomware attack that has caused delays and disruptions at several European airports since the weekend. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/22\/eu-cyber-agency-confirms-ransomware-attack-causing-airport-disruptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The hack<\/a> targeted check-in systems provided by Collins Aerospace on Friday, causing delays at Brussels, Berlin, Dublin, and London\u2019s Heathrow airport, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/23\/european-airports-still-dealing-with-disruptions-days-after-ransomware-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which lasted until yesterday<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the NCA did not name the man, it said he is \u201cin his forties\u201d and that he was arrested in the southern county of West Sussex on Tuesday.\u00a0The man has been released on conditional bail, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlthough this arrest is a positive step, the investigation into this incident is in its early stages and remains ongoing,\u201d said Paul Foster, deputy director and head of the NCA\u2019s National Cyber Crime Unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NCA spokesperson Richard Crowe told TechCrunch that the agency had nothing else to add to the press release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/24\/uk-police-arrest-man-linked-to-ransomware-attack-that-caused-airport-disruptions-in-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K.\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday that a man was arrested in connection to the ransomware attack that has caused delays and disruptions at several European airports since the weekend. \u00a0 The hack targeted check-in systems provided by Collins Aerospace on Friday, causing delays at Brussels, Berlin, Dublin, and London\u2019s Heathrow airport, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}