{"id":111653,"date":"2024-10-08T04:22:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111653"},"modified":"2024-10-08T04:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:22:46","slug":"water-supplier-american-water-works-says-systems-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111653","title":{"rendered":"Water supplier American Water Works says systems hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>American Water Works \u2014 a supplier of drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people \u2014 on Monday said hackers had breached its computer networks and systems, prompting it to pause billing to customers.<\/p>\n<p>The Camden, New Jersey-based utility became aware of the unauthorized activity on Thursday, and took protective steps, including shutting down certain systems, American Water Works stated in a regulatory <a href=\"https:\/\/d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net\/CIK-0001410636\/f39167f1-1f3c-432a-969d-8cf1ad0d99f4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">filing<\/a>. The company does not believe its facilities or operations were impacted by the cybersecurity incident, but is &#8220;currently unable to predict the full impact,&#8221; it stated. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In an effort to protect our customers&#8217; data and to prevent any further harm to our environment, we disconnected or deactivated certain systems. There will be no late charges for customers while these systems are unavailable,&#8221; an American Water spokesperson told CBS News in an email. The company is &#8220;working around the clock to investigate the nature and scope of the incident,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter_signup \">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-newsletter-widget embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-iframe\" data-ads=\"{\" wordcount=\"\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The company said it has notified law enforcement and is cooperating with with them.<\/p>\n<p>According to its website, American Water is the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the U.S., and provides drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people in 14 states and on 18 military installations. It manages more than 500 water and wastewater systems in about 1,700 communities in California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of the company lost $5.58, or 3.9%, to close at $136.99, leaving it a market capitalization of $26.69 billion.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials have recently become concerned about alleged work by Chinese intelligence officers to breach critical U.S. infrastructure networks such as water-treatment facilities, and tied a cyberattack targeting U.S. broadband providers to the government in Beijing, the Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-10-07\/water-supplier-american-water-works-says-hackers-breached-system?srnd=homepage-americas&amp;sref=sBMxP0gT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> late Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kate-gibson\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kate Gibson<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Kate Gibson is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch in New York, where she covers business and consumer finance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/security-hack-breach-american-water-works\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Water Works \u2014 a supplier of drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people \u2014 on Monday said hackers had breached its computer networks and systems, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111653\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}