Transport for London, the federal government physique overseeing the U.Okay. capital’s public transit system, mentioned 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 (referred to as the Tube), buses and trams throughout London, mentioned that whereas the town’s public transit system is “working as regular,” a number of customer-facing techniques are offline, together with some ticketing techniques and its on-line real-time Tube arrival info.
Details of the incident stay scarce. TfL disclosed the cyberattack earlier this week, and mentioned that it took motion to “forestall additional entry to its techniques.”
In a short replace on its web site on Friday, TfL mentioned 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, resembling logs, the group has to find out if any knowledge was stolen. It’s unclear if the group is ready to obtain e-mail as a result of cyberattack. According to the cyber incident web page, TfL says, “lots of our employees have restricted entry to techniques and e-mail and, consequently, we could also be delayed or unable to answer your question or any webforms beforehand submitted.”
According to sources chatting with BBC News, TfL staff have been informed to make money working from home as a lot of the group’s back-office techniques at its headquarters are affected.
A evaluate by TechCrunch of TfL’s public-facing net infrastructure exhibits a lot of the group’s techniques are now not on-line, or have been restricted from accessing the general public web, possible in an effort to isolate the intruders and stop additional entry.
At the time of writing, TechCrunch discovered a number of TfL techniques, together with its worker log-on portal, have been nonetheless accessible from the web.
