North Carolina water supplier targeted in ‘international cyberattack’

guest · Jan 27, 2020

North Carolina water supplier targeted in ‘international cyberattack’
January 27, 2020
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A water supplier in Greenville, North Carolina has suffered a targeted cyber-attack that affected online payments for half a million a people. The outage is expected to last at least two more days as experts investigate the hack.

Greenville Water, which serves nearly 500,000 residents of the Upstate region of South Carolina, announced last week it was experiencing technical difficulties and asked customers to be patient as it worked to recover from “an international cyberattack.”
Utility spokesperson Emerald Clark said online and pay-by-phone systems are not working, and that the outage would likely last until the next week.

“It has not and will not impact or compromise the safety and delivery of water that is treated and maintained by our facilities,” Clark said.
Greenville Water has shared details of the attack with other government agencies, local news outlet Greenville News reported.
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Greenville Water doesn’t say how it determined the attack was targeted, or whether the attackers deployed malware on its systems. The details are consistent with a typical ransomware attack, but it remains to be confirmed if this is indeed so.
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