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10th February 2021, 12:16
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  Hacker tried to poison water supply Changed the level of chemicals used in treatment A hacker illegally gained access to a water treatment plant system, and attempted to poison the water supply for a Florida suburb with a high concentration of sodium hydroxide. Coppers in Oldsmar, Florida, said the hacker used a remote access programme used by the treatment plant workers to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide by a factor of one hundred, from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million. Normally this chemical is used to treat water acidity but the compound is also found in cleaning supplies such as soaps and drain cleaners. It can cause irritation, burns and other complications in larger quantities. The hack was noticed by a supervisor who spotted a cursor moving across a screen and reversed the action in time. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference on Monday that the public was never in danger, but that the hacker did raise “the sodium hydroxide up to dangerous levels”. https://fudzilla.com/news/52337-hack...n-water-supply |
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