By early August, attackers had hit water systems in at least seven U.S. states. The FBI and EPA said the intruders remotely accessed internet-facing programmable logic controllers, the small industrial computers that run pumps and valves. Operators lost monitoring or control, and in some cases water operations degraded.
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