The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined South Staffordshire Plc and South Staffordshire Water Plc (together South Staffordshire) £963,900 following a serious cyber attack that resulted in the personal information of 633,887 people being extracted and published on the dark web.

The Government is bringing in tough new laws to strengthen the UK's defences against cyber attacks on essential public services and critical infrastructure.

Southern Water has published an update on its investigation relating to the illegal cyber attack at the start of this year.

Southern Water has issued an update confirming that a recent cyber attack could put some customer and employee data at risk.

Moody’s Investors Service is warning over the growing risks of cyber attacks for water and wastewater companies in a new sector comment paper. 

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have published a new guide for cyber incident response in the water and wastewater sector.

Southern Water says it is aware of a claim by cyber criminals that data has been stolen from some of its IT systems.

In an Expert Focus article for WaterBriefing, Alain Dedieu, President, Water and Wastewater Segment at Schneider Electric, takes a look at how the water and wastewater industry can take steps to mitigate the risk of cyber attacks to its critical infrastructure.

Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a wide-ranging contract for digital directorate cyber security partner worth an estimated £50 million.

Following an announcement back in August that South Staffordshire PLC, the parent company of South Staffs Water, had been the target of a criminal cyber-attack, the water company has reported that has led to unauthorised access to some customers’ personal data.