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Nevilledog

(51,063 posts) Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:29 PM Feb 2021

Hackers broke into a water treatment facility in Florida, gained access to a internal ICS platform..

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Chris Bing
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Feb 8, 2021
According to a press conference today: Hackers broke into a water treatment facility in Florida, gained access to a internal ICS platform, changed chemical levels, making the water unsafe to consume

Treatment Plant Intrusion Press Conference
On Monday, February 8, 2021, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri gave a press conference surrounding the unlawful intrusion to the City of Oldsmar's water treatment system...
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Chris Bing
@Bing_Chris
This is wild.

Here you have multiple local government officials on camera saying that a hacker was very close to poisoning an entire town by breaching a water treatment facility
1:23 PM · Feb 8, 2021

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Hackers broke into a water treatment facility in Florida, gained access to a internal ICS platform.. (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2021 OP

Holy shit! Alacritous Crier Feb 2021 #1

Really. The City doesn't need help poisoning their own citizens. Baitball Blogger Feb 2021 #2

That is terrifying...I hope we catch them...and if it is a foreign government that is an act of Demsrule86 Feb 2021 #3

Maybe hooking up critical systems to the internet wasn't the best idea after all Blues Heron Feb 2021 #4

We willingly paid folks to work around the clock if needed MissB Feb 2021 #6

Yikes. K&R for visibility. crickets Feb 2021 #5

Article Nevilledog Feb 2021 #7

Alacritous Crier

(3,815 posts)

1. Holy shit!

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Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:31 PM

Feb 2021

Baitball Blogger

(46,697 posts)

2. Really. The City doesn't need help poisoning their own citizens.

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Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:32 PM

Feb 2021

At least not those in towns where the backwater concept exists, where they downplay public services while pushing tax payer money to the good buddies through incubators.

Demsrule86

(68,539 posts)

3. That is terrifying...I hope we catch them...and if it is a foreign government that is an act of

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Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:32 PM

Feb 2021

war as far as I am concerned.

Blues Heron

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4. Maybe hooking up critical systems to the internet wasn't the best idea after all

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Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:33 PM

Feb 2021

how did we used to get by before all the connectivity?

MissB

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6. We willingly paid folks to work around the clock if needed

Reply to Blues Heron (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 06:26 PM

Feb 2021

But it saves $$$$$$ to install a supervisory control and data acquisition system so the treatment plant can be run from afar. Regulating agencies encourage them.

But yeah, their virtual security should be better. This isn’t exactly a new threat to the industry.

crickets

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5. Yikes. K&R for visibility.

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Mon Feb 8, 2021, 06:10 PM

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Nevilledog

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7. Article

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Mon Feb 8, 2021, 07:03 PM

Feb 2021

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Shayan Sardarizadeh
@Shayan86
A computer hacker briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide in Oldsmar's water treatment system, but a worker spotted it and reversed the action.

No arrests have yet been made and it is not known if the hack was done from within the US or outside.
Corrosive warning sign
Hacker tries to poison water supply of Florida city
An attempt to raise the level of a corrosive chemical in the water of Oldsmar, Florida, is thwarted.
bbc.co.uk
3:17 PM · Feb 8, 2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55989843

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