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Passenger Hacked Plane’s Wi-Fi | Tech News
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A Delta flight from Vegas to Atlanta hit turbulence—not of the weather kind, but tech chaos: a passenger rigged a fake Wi-Fi network mid-air, forcing pilots to shut down real Wi-Fi for 30 minutes and call in air traffic control. No plane systems were compromised, but cybersecurity experts are buzzing—especially since some passengers were attending Vegas security conferences. Was this a prank? Or something more sinister? With federal investigators on board, Delta’s digging deep into how—and why—a Wi-Fi Pineapple-style device ended up 30,000 feet above the clouds.
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