United Airlines, New York Stock Exchange Deny Hacking Claims Over Outage

Last week, New York Stock Exchange, United Airlines and the Wallstreet Journal suffered massive network outages. The internet, in particular Twitter was awash with claims of  a major hack. In the case of United Airlines, the outage lasted for one and a half hours in which,  all its flights were grounded. The glitch left thousands of the company’s customers across the World stranded, with the effects spilling over in its 235 destinations within the United States and 138 International destinations. The glitch which the Airline company called a network connectivity issue affected a total of 3,500 flights.