Border Force E-Gate System Outage Resolved: Home Office

A Border Force systems outage that caused nationwide disruptions in several UK airports has been resolved, the Home Office has confirmed. Inbound passengers waited in long queues, as chaos unravelled at Britain’s busiest airports on Tuesday night. The e-gate system, meant to speed up passengers through passport checks, failed for the second time in two weeks. The Home Office said, in a statement, on Wednesday that e-gates at UK airports came back online shortly after midnight. “As soon as engineers detected a wider system network issue at 7:44 p.m. last night, a large-scale contingency response was activated within six minutes. At no point was border security compromised, and there is no indication of malicious cyber activity,” a Home Office spokesperson said....