ACEA hit by hacker attack

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 2 - Rome public utilities and power company ACEA said Thursday it had been hit by a hacker attack earlier in the day but that its essential services had not been affected.
    ACEA said that that it had suffered "today a hacker attack that is not, however, impacting on the essential services provided to users, i.e. the distribution of water and electricity, thanks to the prompt management of the problem with the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) and the Postal Police's Computer Crime Centre".
    From the attack, ACEA added, "the company's internal IT services are at the moment partially affected for the necessary analysis and control activities".
    There had been "no impact", the company reiterated, on users.
    (ANSA).