By Canadian Press

Cybersecurity incident affects services at The Weather Network

Sep 12, 2023 | 8:39 PM

The parent company of The Weather Network says it was affected by a cybersecurity incident that took down some of its data systems.

Pelmorex Corp. says in a statement that the incident was connected to a third-party software provider.

The system outage appears to have started Tuesday morning. 

The company says the weather data systems of both The Weather Network and its French-language equivalent MétéoMédia were affected.

Pelmorex says it is working to fully restore services as soon as possible.

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The company says it has contacted cybersecurity experts about the incident and an investigation is underway.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2023.

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