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Subject Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack, expert says

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Original Message Foreign hackers broke into a water plant control system in Illinois last week and damaged a water pump in what appears to be the first reported case of a malicious cyber attack damaging a critical computer system in the United States, according to an industry expert.

On Nov. 8, a municipal water district employee in Illinois noticed problems with the city’s water pump control system, and a technician determined the system had been remotely hacked into from a computer located in Russia, said Joe Weiss, an industry security expert who obtained a copy of an Illinois state fusion center report describing the incident.

“This is a big deal,” said Weiss. The report stated it is unknown how many other systems might be affected.

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