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Hackers stole data from multiple electric utilities in recent ransomware attack | CNN Politics
It feels like it's been a while since cybersecurity around the utility industry has been a headline topic. That's for the best after a series of high-profile hacks toward the end of the last decade. If this story isn't enough to push power providers into investing into and growing its cybersecurity capabilities, then good luck to them in the 2020s and beyond. Cybersecurity investment isn't a one and done kind of deal. It's not like infrastructure or capital costs. Cycbersecurity needs to constantly be upgraded and reassesd, just like that risks that threaten it.
Hackers stole data from multiple electric utilities in recent ransomware attack | CNN Politics
Hackers stole data belonging to multiple electric utilities in an October ransomware attack on a US government contractor that handles critical infrastructure projects across the country, according to a memo describing the hack obtained by CNN.
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