Computer Pirates lograron access the weekly pass to the systems that control the water treatment plant of a small town of Florida and modify the levels of lejia in the water drinkbaar, dijeron las local authorities.
The intrusions will briefly increase the amount of sodium hydroxide (lejia) in the Oldsmar water treatment system, a city of 15,000 residents in the Tampa Bahia area.
An employee detected the anomaly in order to see different programs and the level of change. The intrusion lasts between three and five minutes, but the employee can parry the attack and reverse the action.
Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, of the Pinellas administration, explained this Monday at a press conference that the level of sodium hydroxide, the main component of the disinfectant, step 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million, level levels que podrían haber enfermado gravemente a los resident si si hubiera llegado a sus hogares.
“It’s all right,” Gualtieri warned, urging the management of critical infrastructure systems, especially in the Tampa area, to review and reform its IT systems.
“It’s a bad act. It’s a bad actor. It’s not just a chlorine poke, or a fluorine pooch, it’s basically a lexicon,” the sheriff underlined.
All detections were not carried out and no computer intrusion was made from the center or inside the United States.
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Senator Marco Rubio, Florida’s Republican, said in a statement that the intention to introduce the water tax collector should be treated as a “national security measure”.
Water, plant, oil, gas and gas plant operators in the United States have accelerated the transformation of digital systems that allow engineers and contractors to control the temperature, pressure and chemical levels of remote work stations.
But the experts have announced that this very remote access can be approved by computer pirates that can be hacked.
Last year, when Israel entered into force the orders to establish at home, the Israeli authorities informed that computer pirates affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran intended to pirate the peace minister.
