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IT outage hits German airports, Bild newspaper reports

Published by Global Banking and Finance Review

Posted on January 3, 2025

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Airports across Germany have been hit by a IT outage affecting federal police systems used to check incoming passengers, Bild newspaper reported on Friday, citing the police.

"Our colleagues have to do a lot of things manually that the system used to do. We're still managing to get it done at the moment," said a police spokesperson responsible for Frankfurt airport, Germany's busiest.

Federal police were not immediately available for comment.

(Writing by Matthias Williams, Editing by Friederike Heine)

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