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07/19/2021

Bay Area Water System Surfaces as an Apparent Cyber Victim

Industry Week

As the critical infrastructure focus seems to be intensifying, news has surfaced about an apparent attack on the San Francisco Bay Area water supply.

NBC News first reported that the unidentified hacker used a former plant employee's username and password to gain entry to the unidentified Bay Area water treatment facility on Jan. 15. While confirming the breach, Michael Sena, executive director of the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center declined that any threat to public safety existed.

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