Criminals have a Us water system hacked, and then a pump destroyed by him repeatedly on and off. It is one of the few times that a hack of such a system is made public.
The hack was the world created by Joe Weiss, beveiligingsexpert in a trade magazine. The hack could take place, as a supplier of scada software, a hack was committed, where the usernames and passwords are captured. The hack was supposedly created through the plc’s in the water system. Water systems are often dependent of plc’s, according to Weiss.
The water system that was hacked is probably in the Us city of Springfield in the state of Illinois, says Cnet. The ip address of the criminals was traced to Russia, but that’s probably not the place from where the hack was committed. The water pump was destroyed by him repeatedly on and off, so he overheated her. It is unclear whether the hack from the supplier of the scada software installations have been cracked.
It rarely happens that a hack of a water system in the public domain. That kind of hackery is a sensitive issue, because the society is dependent on such systems for the supply of water, power and gas.
The attack looks much like the Stuxnet attack in 2010 was targeted at the nuclear installations in Iran. The malware focused exclusively on scada. The attackers managed to Stuxnet, the centrifuges used for uranium enrichment to influence. By them temporarily on full power run, was the life of the centrifuge is considerably reduced.