Arkansas City, Kansas, had to switch its water treatment facility to manual operations over the weekend due to a cyberattack that was detected on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As of the\u00a02020 census,\u00a0Arkansas City<\/a> has a population of 11,974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the past, we observed multiple attacks against water facilities; in January the Black Basta ransomware gang claimed<\/a> to have hacked the UK water utility Southern Water, a major player in the UK water industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In December 2023, threat actors launched a cyberattack<\/a> on an Irish water utility causing the interruption of the power supply for two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In November 2023, the Daixin Team group claimed<\/a> to have hacked the North Texas Municipal Water District (US) and threatened to leak the stolen data.
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