Federated Co-operatives Ltd. has become the latest target of a cybersecurity incident.
In a statement released Thursday evening, the company says it is "experiencing a cybersecurity incident that is impacting some internal and customer facing systems at local retail Co-ops and cardlock fuel locations."
As a precaution, the company says they have shut down some of the systems. The incident is impacting several locations across the prairies.
— Federated Co-op Ltd. (@CoopFCL) June 27, 2024
News of the attack came to light on Wednesday as some Co-op locations took to their social media accounts to inform customers of unexpected issues.
Co-op says it has brought in third-party experts to investigate the cybersecurity incident.
“We regret that this outage has occurred, and we thank Co-op members and customers for their patience as our teams work to resolve the issue."
As of Friday morning, Co-op websites remain offline.