Petro-Canada said on Twitter that it is "making progress on resolving the disruptions customers have been experiencing and will continue to update you as more services come back online.WATCH | Customers confused and concerned by outage:Filling up at gas stations in Toronto, drivers told CBC News that the cybersecurity incident that has knocked out credit and debit payments at Petro-Canada for several days now is not only inconvenient, it's also troubling.
"I saw the piece of paper on the pumps saying cash only," he told CBC News. "It must be something — for three days? It's more than a technical issue.
Jon Ferguson, general manager of cybersecurity at the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, agrees that the impact of this cybersecurity incident is likely to be a long one for the company"If they have to go in and modify critical systems, that can take a very long time to recover, depending on what's damaged," Ferguson told The Canadian Press.
after hackers infiltrated the company's systems. That attack shut the flow of gasoline across the key pipeline that supplies the eastern seaboard, leading to widespread shortages.