A department in Veolia North America, a transnational company offering water, energy and waste recycling management services, suffered a ransomware attack which resulted in the theft of some personal data, and forced the company to take parts of its infrastructure offline.
In a press release published on the Veolia website, the company confirmed its Municipal Water division suffered an incident that forced the firm to take the targeted back-end systems and servers offline until they could be restored.
“As a result, some customers experienced delays when using our online bill payment systems,” the release states.
Operations not affected
Since then, the systems have been restored, and any payments made during the attack have been applied. “Customers will not be penalized for late payments or charged interest on their bills due to this service interruption,” Veolia added.
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