( ) -q-19- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the system targeted.” Three members of Congress are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how hackers breached a water utility system near Pittsburgh. [CutID: <Cuts> WATER-UTILITY-HACK-house-q-FRIam.mp3 Time: 19s Title: WATER-UTILITY-HACK-house-q-FRIam Out-cue: the system targeted] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. An electronic calling card left by the hackers […]
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Congressmen ask DOJ to investigate water utility hack
( ) -q-19- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the system targeted.”
Three members of Congress are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how hackers breached a water utility system near Pittsburgh.
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Title: WATER-UTILITY-HACK-house-q-FRIam
Out-cue: the system targeted]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. An electronic calling card left by the hackers suggests they picked their target because it uses components made by an Israeli company.
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VERBATIM: The attack prompted the nation’s top cyberdefense agency to warn other water and sewage-treatment utilities they may be vulnerable. In a letter, the Pennsylvania lawmakers say Americans must know their drinking water and other basic infrastructure is safe. The Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, was the system targeted.