Record / attack outage · United States · 2026-09-21

Attack-related outage at a US organization (Water Utilities)

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Hackers attacked operational technology systems at Colorado water utilities, changing equipment settings, disabling remote access and alarms, and altering pumping cycles. No specific victim organization or actor name was identified in the available information.

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Country · sector
United States · Water Utilities
Dates
occurred 2026-09-21 · disclosed 2026-09-21 · published 2026-09-21
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An attack outage sits in these classes of the AI-security landscape. The companies below work on that class of problem. This is a taxonomy, not a claim that any of them would have changed this incident.

NetworkEndpoint
United States · est. 2025
NetworkAI posture (CSPM)
China · est. 2015 · raised $208M
Endpoint
United States · est. 2026
Endpoint
United States · est. 2026 · raised $100M
Endpoint
Israel · est. 2025

Vendor data: AI Security Startups Map by Prompt Security (CC BY 4.0), synced daily. startups.prompt.security. Paid placements are labelled Sponsored; HeimWall, which runs this site, is labelled Operator. 453 companies in the directory.

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