(Reuters) – U.S. water and sewage utility American Water (NYSE:) mentioned it has paused billing, yanked its customer support, and disconnected a few of its computer systems following an unspecified “cybersecurity incident.”
In an announcement on its webpage, American Water mentioned it realized of “unauthorized exercise” on its laptop community on Oct. 3 and has since disconnected an unspecified variety of techniques “to guard our prospects’ information and stop any additional hurt to our surroundings.”
The New Jersey-based firm, which says it supplies service to greater than 14 million folks in 14 U.S. states, didn’t instantly return a message in search of touch upon the incident.
Though the main points of the breach weren’t disclosed, organizations within the U.S. and overseas have struggled for years to defend in opposition to and comprise incursions by ransom-seeking cybercriminals, who usually hack into teams’ computer systems and encrypt the information to extort huge sums of cash in cryptocurrency funds.
