Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Hundreds of ticket machines operated by Northern have been put out of action by a cyber attack.
The company said it appeared to be a ransomware attack, but that no customer or payment data had been compromised. Northern's self-service ticket machines have been offline since last week and an investigation has been launched.
The government-run company said it had taken 'swift action' and that only the servers which operate the ticket machines had been affected. READ MORE: Boris Johnson 'warned he could kill the Queen' as Dominic Cummings claims PM mocked Covid impact on over 80s In a statement Northern said: "This is the subject of an ongoing investigation
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