Ontario transit agency Metrolinx says that GO Transit was the target of an attack by North Korean hackers for reasons unknown. No no personal information was compromised and systems that operate its trains and buses were not affected. North Korea appears to be on a campaign of testing whatever foreign system it can find. The attack has qualities related to the so-called WannaCry virus that has shutdown hospitals in the UK. Spokeswoman Anne Marie Aikins said Tuesday that the cyber attack happened recently, but would not give a date or what specifically was targeted because of security concerns.
BELL HIT BY DATA THEFT
The RCMP has launched an investigation into a data breach at Bell Canada that appears to have compromised customer names and email addresses, but no credit card or banking information. Bell Canada spokesman Nathan Gibson told The Canadian Press that “fewer than 100,000 customers were affected.” Bell Canada has alerted customers who were affected, and also informed them that additional security, authentication and identification requirements have been implemented
