United Airlines was compelled to hit pause on all of its flights throughout the U.S. and Canada early Friday morning resulting from an IT hiccup, the airliner stated. Thankfully, it appears like the corporate’s acquired it below management: United confirmed in an announcement to Gizmodo that no matter “technical system issues” that have been impacting the corporate’s technical ops have “since been resolved.”

“All systems are now working normally and we are working diligently to get customers to their destinations,” a spokesperson stated.

United clients in cities like Jacksonville and Denver have been reporting that earlier than 8 A.M. at the moment, they have been unable to test into or board their flights resulting from what’s recognized in airport parlance as a “ground stop,” or instruction from the air site visitors controller to stay aground. The United Airlines app and web site have been additionally down, based on some frustrated fliers set to journey with the corporate.

The firm wouldn’t reply Gizmodo’s questions on why it had chosen to go away its fliers stranded—albeit briefly—at some early hour of the morning. That stated, we do know that the United staff isn’t too cyber-savvy. An inside take a look at carried out by the United cybersecurity staff this past summer discovered that when confronted when an apparent phishing e-mail, a great 11% of the 78,000 workers and contractors surveyed would simply… open it to see what was inside. Only 4.2%, the staff stated, would really hassle reporting it up the chain of command.

United—like its rivals within the airline area—has had its personal cybersecurity snafus through the years. We additionally know that cyberattacks on airliners are occurring at a more frequent clip than ever earlier than. Even if the minor delays invoked by United’s IT programs earlier at the moment weren’t security-related, we do know that the corporate’s had loads of possibilities to beef up its cyber smarts through the years. If that inside take a look at is any indication, it appears like not less than a few of these groups have dropped the ball, leaving all of us caught on the bottom with it.