Transport for London, the federal government physique overseeing the U.Okay. capital’s public transit system, stated it’s experiencing on-line outages as a result of an “ongoing cyber safety incident” set to tug into the weekend.
TfL, which runs the London Underground (generally known as the Tube), buses and trams throughout London, stated that whereas the town’s public transit system is “working as traditional,” a number of customer-facing programs are offline, together with some ticketing programs and its on-line real-time Tube arrival info.
Particulars of the incident stay scarce. TfL disclosed the cyberattack on September 2, and stated that it took motion to “forestall additional entry to its programs.”
In a temporary replace on its web site on Friday, TfL stated it has no proof but that any buyer knowledge was compromised within the cyberattack.
A spokesperson for TfL didn’t reply to a request for remark about what proof, similar to logs, the group has to find out if any knowledge was stolen. It’s unclear if the group is ready to obtain electronic mail as a result of cyberattack. In keeping with the cyber incident web page, TfL says, “lots of our employees have restricted entry to programs and electronic mail and, in consequence, we could also be delayed or unable to answer your question or any webforms beforehand submitted.”
In keeping with sources talking to BBC Information, TfL workers have been instructed to earn a living from home, as a lot of the group’s back-office programs at its headquarters are affected.
A overview by TechCrunch of TfL’s public-facing internet infrastructure exhibits a lot of the group’s programs are not on-line, or have been restricted from accessing the general public web, probably in an effort to isolate the intruders and stop additional entry.
On the time of writing, TechCrunch discovered a number of TfL programs, together with its worker log-on portal, had been nonetheless accessible from the web.