ITRON, INC.

Itron sits inside the grid itself: smart meters and the software behind them across more than 8,000 utilities, hundreds of millions of endpoints. On April 13, 2026, an unauthorized third party reached its internal IT network, and the account stops there, naming no actor, no vector, and no data confirmed taken. No ransomware crew has claimed it, which in this field reads less like safety than like an investigation that has not finished. When the vendor is this deep in the utilities' plumbing, silence about how the front door opened is not reassurance; it is the part worth watching.