Hackers targeted a wastewater treatment plant in Indiana on Friday evening, prompting plant managers to send maintenance personnel to investigate the suspicious activity, a local official told CNN.
A Russia-linked hacking group claimed responsibility. The same group claimed credit for a string of hacking incidents against water facilities in Texas earlier this year. “We were targeted and we have not been compromised,” Jim Ankrum, general manager of Tipton Municipal Utilities, told CNN. TMU provides electricity, water and wastewater treatment for Tipton, a town of 5,000 people that is about 40 miles north of Indianapolis.
US officials have been warning that the country’s water systems need to shore up their defenses in the face of persistent threats from state and criminal actors. Cyberattacks are hitting water and wastewater systems “throughout the United States” and water facilities must improve their defenses against the threat, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a letter last month to state officials.
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