Transport for London may replace its Oyster card with with new ticketing systems operated through mobile phones or bank cards.
Details of vulnerabilities in the chipset used in London's Oyster travel smartcard have been released by Dutch researchers, who have said the smartcard's security was "fundamentally broken".
Cubic, a member of the Transys consortium that runs London's Oyster smartcard public transport system, has been legally restrained by its partner EDS.
Transport for London has terminated its contract with the Transys consortium that provides the Oyster ticketing system for the London Underground, buses and trams.
Travellers in London were forced to pay full price fares on Saturday as the computer system for the Oyster travel smartcard encountered technical problems during the morning.
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