Tom Anderson quotes "Email from IT last week":
"Fibre cables serving Torrington Place and associated buildings were
severed earlier today by vandals intent on stealing copper, along with
various other cables types..."

In my taxonomy of malefactors those would be thieves, not vandals.
Vandalism is damage done for its own sake.
--
Mark Brader "Well, I didn't completely test it, and
Toronto of course there was a power failure the
next day." -- Louis J. Judice