What’s most interesting about the Florida water system hack? That we heard about it at all.
Summary: An intruder remotely accessed the Oldsmar, Florida water treatment system via TeamViewer and briefly raised sodium hydroxide to 100 times its normal level before a supervisor saw the change on screen and reverted it; the town has about 15,000 residents and the water supply was not affected. Krebs on Security reports that the only federal law covering water facility cybersecurity, the Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, requires risk assessments and emergency plans but does not require facilities to report cyber incidents.
What's compelling: The Water ISAC's 450 members serve roughly 200 million Americans but represent less than one percent of the water utility industry, and the only reason this incident became public was that a county sheriff chose to hold a news conference.
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