( ) -q-24- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “as a threat.” The hacking of a municipal water authority in a small Pennsylvania town is prompting new warnings from U.S. security officials. [CutID: <Cuts> WATER-SYSTEM-HACKED-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 24s Title: WATER-SYSTEM-HACKED-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: as a threat] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. In 2021, the federal government’s leading cybersecurity agency reported […]
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Feds issue warning following hack of PA town’s municipal water authority
( ) -q-24- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “as a threat.”
The hacking of a municipal water authority in a small Pennsylvania town is prompting new warnings from U.S. security officials.
[CutID: <Cuts> WATER-SYSTEM-HACKED-house-q-TUEam.mp3
Time: 24s
Title: WATER-SYSTEM-HACKED-house-q-TUEam
Out-cue: as a threat]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. In 2021, the federal government’s leading cybersecurity agency reported five attacks on water authorities over two years, four of them by ransomware and a fifth by a former employee.
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VERBATIM: The warnings come as states and the federal government are wrestling with how to harden water utilities against hackers. Officials say the danger is hackers gaining control of automated equipment to shut down pumps that supply drinking water or contaminate drinking water by reprogramming automated chemical treatments. Potentially hostile geopolitical rivals such as Iran and China are viewed by U.S. officials as a threat.