Interac, one of the affected banking networks, has stated that its services are now operational. The corporation supports a vast number of debit cards, ATMs, and electronic fund transfers across Canada, with Interac recently announcing that the service has reached one billion transactions. Interac wants to “additionally reinforce” its “current network redundancy” to assist avoid its services from going offline in the event of another outage.
Rogers has not yet provided an explanation for the outage, but the Canadian Communications Security Establishment says there is “no sign” of a cyberattack, according to the CBC. Cloudflare experts also stated that the outage was most likely caused by “an internal fault, not a cyber attack.” They believe it was caused by a problem with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), a technology that governs the flow of traffic on the internet. BGP was also involved in an outage that disrupted Facebook’s services last year.
