{"id":743686,"date":"2026-08-11T18:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:51:22","slug":"delta-investigating-after-someone-set-up-fake-wi-fi-network-mid-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/delta-investigating-after-someone-set-up-fake-wi-fi-network-mid-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An unidentified passenger allegedly created a fake Wi-Fi network on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Monday, prompting pilots to alert air traffic control, according to the airline and public broadcasts from the plane.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The] safety of flight was never in question and no aircraft operating systems were affected,\u201d Delta spokesperson Morgan Durrant told TechCrunch, adding that the in-flight network was not compromised.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are fully investigating to gather a complete set of facts, which will take time. We will partner with federal law enforcement and aviation regulators to ensure the incident is thoroughly investigated,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

The flight crew turned off the aircraft\u2019s legitimate Wi-Fi network for around 30 minutes due to the incident.<\/p>\n

Once the crew became aware of the fake Wi-Fi network, the pilots sent two<\/a> messages<\/a> mid-flight to air traffic control.\u00a0The pilots said a passenger \u201ccreated a scam Wi-Fi\u201d that was designed to impersonate the airplane\u2019s legitimate wireless network. <\/p>\n

The pilots said they did not have any more information, but said some of the passengers came from cybersecurity conferences held in Las Vegas last week.<\/p>\n

At this point, it\u2019s unclear what the passenger or passengers were doing. It\u2019s easy to set up a fake or malicious Wi-Fi network using commercially available tools like a Wi-Fi Pineapple<\/a>, a hardware device designed for spoofing real-world networks. These devices are sold for professional security testers to audit companies\u2019 security, or for hobbyists who want to learn how to hack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Atlanta Police Department referred questions to federal authorities. Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Steve Kulm said the agency has not received a report about the incident. The FBI did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to TechCrunch\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An unidentified passenger allegedly created a fake Wi-Fi network on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Monday, prompting pilots to alert air traffic control, according to the airline and public broadcasts from the plane. \u201c[The] safety of flight was never in question and no aircraft operating systems were affected,\u201d Delta spokesperson Morgan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}