The City of Saskatoon says at this time it appears only Transit is affected by the global IT outage. The Microsoft system outage has affected internal software.

Access Transit disruptions including incoming phone lines.

Saskatoon Transit disruptions include incoming phone lines, real-time bus location updates on Transit and other trip-planning apps, service alerts for detours or service interruptions, mobile ticketing purchases are intermittently unavailable in the Transit and TGo apps. Fares already purchased in the apps remain can be used.

The Customer Service Centre is experiencing a high volume of inquiries, but again incoming phone lines are among the services affected so customers can contact Customer Service via email.

The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says the outage was triggered by one of its updates for Windows.

The IT outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off the air.