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American Water Warns of Billing Outages After Finding Hackers in Its Systems


U.S. public utility giant American Water says it has disconnected some of its systems after discovering that hackers breached its internal networks last week. From a report: American Water, which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across the United States,...

U.S. public utility giant American Water says it has disconnected some of its systems after discovering that hackers breached its internal networks last week. The company said it discovered "unauthorized activity" within its networks on October 3 and promptly moved to disconnect affected systems. "In an effort to protect our customers' data and to prevent any further harm to our environment, we disconnected or deactivated certain systems," Ruben E. Rodriguez, a spokesperson for American Water, told TechCrunch in a statement.

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