CN Rail says an IT incident affecting passenger rail service in the Toronto area it began suffering this afternoon isn’t related to cybersecurity.<\/p>\n
“It’s an internet connectivity incident,” a company spokesperson told IT World Canada <\/em>at 4:30 p.m Eastern. “At this point nothing indicates it’s a cybersecurity breach.”<\/p>\n In a tweet, CN described the problem as both an internet connectivity and an electronic data interchange (EDI) issue.<\/p>\n In addition to passenger trains, CN’s customer portal is also impacted.<\/p>\n CN freight trains, the Montreal-area EXO train and bus passenger service and Amtrack trains to and from the U.S. are operating as normal.<\/p>\n The problem is disrupting southern Ontario’s VIA Rail and the provincially-owned GO Transit passenger service at the start of rush hour, where thousands of people are eager to get home.<\/p>\n In a post on the X social media platform, Go Transit said, “We intend to run limited service from [Toronto] Union Station but there will be ongoing delays and cancellations as we work to recover rail service.”<\/p>\n “There will continue to be cancellations and delays as we get everything back up and running,” GO Transit said in a later tweet. “Trains are very busy, so please consider travel alternatives or travelling later this evening if possible.”<\/p>\n GO Transit’s trains and buses provide a regional public transit service for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area. It serves a population of more than 7 million people. GO Transit is a division of the provincial Metrolinx Crown corporation. A Metrolinx spokesperson told CBC News<\/a> that two GO Trains were stuck between stations, but passengers were being transported to nearby stations.<\/p>\n The post CN Rail reports \u2018internet connectivity incident\u2019 disrupting Ontario passenger service<\/a> first appeared on IT World Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CN Rail says an IT incident affecting passenger rail service in the Toronto area it began suffering this afternoon isn\u2019t related to cybersecurity. \u201cIt\u2019s an internet connectivity incident,\u201d a company spokesperson told IT World Canada at 4:30 p.m Eastern. \u201cAt this point nothing indicates it\u2019s a cybersecurity breach.\u201d In a tweet, CN described the problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,1004],"tags":[391,275],"class_list":["post-41802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supply-chain","category-transportation","tag-di","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41802"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41883,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802\/revisions\/41883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}