American utilities are currently looking into the types of cyber insurance that might be available to them, in order to protect themselves against what could potentially result in multi-billion dollar losses if an attack similar to the one that struck Ukraine on December 23 were to happen in the U.S.The incident in Ukraine was the first time a cyber attack had ever caused a power outage. That said, this is one of only a small number of hacks that have ever led to actual physical impacts on utilities infrastructures as opposed to leading to damages that were exclusively digital; such as the loss or theft of stored data.
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