Security News > 2020 > February > Southern Water not such a phisherman's phriend, hauls itself offline to tackle email lure

British utility biz Southern Water was the victim of a phishing attack on Wednesday, resulting in a hurried shutdown of some of the company's systems.

An industry insider told The Register that Southern Water's networks, including the system responsible for Supervision, Control, and Data Acquisition were hit.

The Register understands that Southern Water is actually rather chuffed with the way its teams handled the incident.

Southern Water has outsourced chunks of its processes over the years.

Perhaps fortunately for Southern Water, The Register understands Capita's involvement with the utility is more to do with printing than external email.

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