"UK Water Supplier Hit with Clop Ransomware Attack"

A cyberattack disrupted a UK water supplier's corporate IT systems, but the company claims that its water supply was unaffected. Meanwhile, the alleged attacker, the Clop ransomware group, claimed the attack was on another, larger water utility, which slammed the claim as a "cyber hoax." South Staffordshire PLC, the parent company of South Staffs Water and Cambridge Water, confirmed in a statement that it had been the victim of a cyberattack that had no impact on its ability to provide safe water to all of its customers. The company serves approximately 1.6 million customers with water. The Clop ransomware gang claimed responsibility for an attack on the UK water supplier on its dark web website, but stated that the victim was Thames Water rather than South Staffordshire. Thames Water is the largest water supplier in the UK, serving 15 million customers in Greater London and other areas along the river that runs through the city. Thames Water quickly took to its website to inform all of its customers that any media reports claiming it had been the victim of a cyberattack were completely false. The Clop gang claimed in its post that it gained access to the company's Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Further examination of stolen data from the Clop site attack appears to confirm Thames Water's assurance, as it includes a spreadsheet of usernames and passwords containing South Staffordshire and South Staffs Water email addresses. The breached data includes passports, screenshots from water-treatment SCADA systems, driver's licenses, and other information. This article continues to discuss the cyberattack that disrupted corporate IT systems for one UK water supplier.

Threatpost reports "UK Water Supplier Hit with Clop Ransomware Attack"