A major system outage at the London Public Library which has stopped its electronic borrowing and the website is being investigated as a "cyber incident". The library said the outage started Wednesday morning and resulted in three branches having to shut their doors. The library is having to rely on its social media channels to communicate with the public.

On October 28, 2023, the Toronto Public Library (TPL) was also the victim of a "cybersecurity incident" Till date work still underway in Toronto to restore services. That library did not pay a ransom to recover the stolen material. TPL has said personal information of employees including their names, birthdays, social insurance numbers and home addresses were stolen in the attack. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page