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Starting next month, rates for TheBus and TheHandi-Van will go up by a quarter — to $3 and $2.25, respectively. The last time public transportation rates were changed was in 2018.

Honolulu was one of 35 transit systems in the U.S. to receive additional support from the Federal Transit Administration.

The HOLO card has been free of charge since its debut in 2018, but starting on March 1, getting a new card or replacement will have a $2 charging fee.

The Honolulu Rate Commission will be taking public testimony on proposed fare increases on TheBus and TheHandi-Van on Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m. HPR’s Zoe Dym reports on some of the changes the commission is considering.

Federal law enforcement agencies are still investigating the recent cyberattack on Oʻahu Transit Services, which operates TheBus and TheHandi-Van. Matthew Chapman, a professor at the University of Hawaiʻi - West Oʻahu, said the intent or motivation behind the attack was not clear. The Conversation's Savannah Harriman-Pote has more.

Honolulu’s HOLO card bus fare system is running normally once again. As HPR’s Scott Kim reports, the city stopped HOLO card operations last week, after a cyberattack hit Oʻahu Transit Services, the operator of TheBus and TheHandi-Van.

The Oʻahu Transit Services network is slowly coming back online after a cyberattack forced it to shut down its mobile system a week ago. Honolulu Transportation Services Director Roger Morton says full services, such as the DaBus tracking phone app and the HandiVan’s mobile data terminal, should be back up in a matter of days.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are looking into the cyberattack on the servers for TheBus and TheHandi-Van that occurred on Dec. 9. Any information can be reported to the Honolulu FBI.

There is a massive online server outage affecting Oʻahu’s public transportation services including TheBus, TheHandi-Van, and HOLO card operations. There is no time frame on when the networks will be recovered.