Cyberatics struck the water supply system throughout the United States - the White House

The attacks did not affect the supply of drinking water, but worried high -ranking officials and legislators, and also attracted attention to the problems of safety in the water sector. Water supply and sewerage systems have been affected throughout the US as a result of cyberattacks. The White House and the Environmental Protection Agency have warned the governors about the dangers, CNN informs.

In a letter to the heads of the State Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Michael Rigan and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called for support to make sure that all water systems comprehensively evaluate their current cybersecurity practice. In many cases, in their words, "even basic cybersecurity precautions" are not applied to water supply.

The agency will also create an "Operational Group" for "identify the most significant vulnerability of water supply systems to cyberattacks. " Officials of the US administration have invited civil servants of internal security and environmental protection to discuss the improvement of the cybersecurity needed in the water sector. The US water supply sector, covering 150,000 public water systems, often has difficulty finding money and staff to combat hacker threats.

In November, hackers broke industrial equipment on several US water supply facilities to display an anti -Israeli message on equipment. Baiden's administration accused the Iran's Hacker attacks. Neither likely Iranian nor Chinese hacker attacks, according to the message, have not affected the supply of drinking water, but they were concerned about US and legislators' high -ranking officials and attracted attention to water sector safety issues.

Biden's administration tried to use the combination of regulation and federal support for new cyber defense technologies to solve the problem. In October, the EPA was forced to cancel a key resolution on cybersecurity for public water supply systems after court appeal by the Prosecutor General of the Republican Party.