Posted on 06/20/2021 12:52:24 PM PDT by thecodont
Someone surreptitiously gained access to a Bay Area community's water supply and deleted programs that treat drinking water, NBC News reported.
The breach happened on January 15 and was noticed the next day by workers at the unnamed facility, who changed passwords and added the programs back in. The individual is being referred to as a hacker, but it doesn't appear it took much hacking to get in. The person got hold of a former plant employee's username and password, and simply logged themselves into the system.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Don’t know why this happened in January and we are hearing about it now.
On a sane planet every elected board member and the entire IT department would be facing decades in prison for malfeasance.
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can’t be the ruskies.
that’s on the “no hack” list biden gave putin
Former employee?
or
disgruntled ex-employee fired for some reason?
Government agencies typically require an email address as the user name. That’s half the information needed to get into most networks.
Then feckless, self-serving scumbags also known as managers and executives oppose complex password requirements and multifactor authentication. Because the pinheads can’t handle them.
Consequently a simple dictionary attack is enough to penetrate most government agencies.
Bkmk
Water supplies should not be accessible from outside the facility. In 1978, maybe even 1988, these things were not “online”, and we got along fine without it.
One day something very bad will happen like ATMs go down,power grid stops or jets fall out of the sky. We need not worry because Fedgov has our back.
Biden* giving Putin a list of “no hack” sites is brilliant.
Vladimir probably asked Biden* to make a list.
Now Putin has confirmation that these are important sites and will, indeed, hack them.
* elected to presidency by voter fraud.
Article ends by stating the FBI is still investigating the January hack. Cuz that’s what they do: investigate ‘n stuff.
(That is when they are not sending SWAT-style teams in the middle of the night to break down the doors of conservative Americans who happened to be photographed or make a credit card charge or a cellphone call while in DC on 6 January.)
Funny how Merrit Garland, our new Attorney General, isn’t bothered by that.
FBI getting an early start!
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