Ryan Rocca reports:
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) says an investigation is underway amid a ransomware attack that has impacted some services and systems.
The TTC said in a statement that staff learned the transit agency was the victim of a ransomware attack on Friday.
Read more on Global News.
The TTC is not the only transit system hit by ransomware, and ransomware attacks on transit systems have been recorded for the past five years or so. More recently, the Connecticut Transit system was hit by Conti threat actors. On September 10, in an announcement on their web site, CTransit acknowledged that there was a cybersecurity incident:
Although DataBreaches.net can find no public reporting on this incident, CTransit agreed to pay $200,000 ransom in BTC to Conti. But when the time came for Conti to give them a copy of all data and proof of deletion, Conti simply gave them a login to a Mega.nz account — an account that CTransit found didn’t work and had been terminated. Claiming that Mega had deleted the account, Conti told CTransit that there was nothing that they could do as all the data had been there and was now deleted by Mega.
To be clear, however: DataBreaches.net does not (yet) know which threat actor(s) may be responsible for the TTC attack.