The word you are looking for is "terrorism". That is what you call it when you intentionally attack infrastructure. Archive: https://archive.today/cwFQn From the post: >>On Sunday, Denver-area broadband customers from multiple companies experienced outages that the companies are blaming on fires and vandalism. Chris Schroll lives in Parker and was impacted. His service is back but he received an email from BAM Broadband that said in part: “We have been given more information from our upstream carrier regarding the damage and we wanted to share this with you. It has been reported that the cause of the outage was vandalism. Handholds/Manholes have been lit on fire randomly across the state for a few days and happened again last night along I-225.”