By Ionut Arghire on April 01, 2021 The United States Department of Justice this week announced official charges against a Kansas man, for accessing and tampering with a public water system. The man, Wyatt A. Travnichek, 22, of Ellsworth County, Kansas, is accused of accessing the computer system of the Ellsworth County Rural Water District without authorization. The intrusion took place on or about March 27, 2019, the Department of Justice says. Once he gained accessed to the protected computer system, Travnichek allegedly performed specific actions that resulted in shutting down processes affecting the facilities cleaning and disinfecting procedures. These actions, the indictment claims, were intended to harm the Ellsworth Rural Water District No. 1, which is also referred to as Post Rock Rural Water District.