The airport's representatives have confirmed the hack

May 28, 2013 14:31 GMT  ·  By

Hackers of the Turkish Ajan group have breached the systems of the Akron-Canton Airport of Ohio, US. Besides defacing the airport’s official website, the hackers have also leaked some information.

The data leak comprises names, email addresses and contact information of over 15,000 users. In addition, the usernames, passwords, names and email addresses of administrators have also been published online.

“Since today, you have been trying to bring Middle East under chaos, United States of America, which is controlled by Zionist Jewish people to achieve their goals for centuries,” the hackers wrote on the defaced site.

“While you’re trying to draw the map of 100-200 years later from now, you are trying to make Muslim people fight each other and finish-waste themselves and, we can't just spectate it,” they added.

“You are a country which bombs its own state, kills its own citizens, and blames the Muslim for it and tries to equate terrorism with them. This only suits insincere people which lack of human values, you.”

Shortly after the breach, the Akron-Canton Airport took the website offline.

“Anyone who has booked a ticket or is flying from the airport, your information has not been affected by the attack on our website this morning,” the airport’s representatives wrote in a statement.

“Information that was obtained included entries to contests on the airport's website. This included names, emails, cities and phone numbers. No email address passwords or credit card information was on the airport's website,” they added.

“If you have signed up for an airport contest in the past two years, you should change your email password as a precaution. If you are flying from the Akron Canton Airport, it's business as usual. Your personal information or your flight itinerary has not been accessed or compromised.”