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A hacker attack created chaos over the weekend in several major European airports. It looks like the work of a criminal group, says one expert. Another believes we should take it easy.

Cybersecurity consultant warns against overreaction to hacker attack

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One might be tempted to think it was archive images that several media outlets brought from airports this weekend: Staff at Brussels Airport sat in front of long lines of travelers and manually wrote luggage tags. At Heathrow in London and Berlin Brandenburg, the queues grew longer and longer, and delays increased.

However, the images were entirely fresh.

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