On the latest episode of StateScoop’s Priorities podcast, Samuel Alva, a technical adviser with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, explains the “huge” threat facing the nation’s tens of thousands of water utilities, and what they can do to protect themselves. “Water is a single point of failure. So that’s why it has been under attack,” he says.
American Water Co., hit by hackers early this month, now is being sued by customers seeking damages for the potential theft of identity information. At least two suits in Camden federal court say claims will exceed $5 million, the minimum required for proposed class action litigation.
Each contends American Water was negligent in allowing one or more hackers to enter its computer system. The suits seek to represent “all persons whose PII [personally identifiable information] was compromised” by the hack.
