American Water shuts customer portal after attack
The largest US water utility shut down its billing and customer portal after a cyber attack; water services were unaffected.
- Service
- American Water
- Date
- 3 October 2024
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “American Water shuts customer portal after attack”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 3 Oct 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-10-03-american-water-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/american-water-shuts-down-online-services-after-cyberattack/.
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