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A hacker gained entry to the system controlling the water treatment plant of a Florida city of 15,000 and tried to taint the water supply with a caustic chemical, exposing a danger cybersecurity...
Generic image of running water A hacker gained unauthorized entry to the system controlling the water treatment plant of a Florida city of 15,000 and tried to taint the water supply with a caustic chemical, exposing a danger cybersecurity experts say has grown as systems become both more computerized and accessible via the internet. The hacker who breached the system at the city of Oldsmar’s water treatment plant on Friday using a remote access program shared by plant workers briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide by a factor of one hundred (from 100 parts per million to 11,100 pa...
A hacker managed to access the computer system of a Florida water treatment plant and tried to taint Oldsmar’s water supply with lye. Cybersecurity experts have warned that municipal systems are easy targets because of underfunded computer infrastructures.
Nefarious actors were able to briefly increase the amount of a caustic chemical in the town's water supply.
Investigators said it wasn’t immediately clear where the attack came from, or whether the hacker was domestic or foreign. The FBI and Secret Service have joined the investigation.