Apparently, Russian hackers are targeting Springfield, Illinois's water. According to Wired's "Threat Level," last week a group of hackers breached the Springfield, Illinois water utility system and remotely destroyed a water pump.
.... The Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control System-Cyber Emergency Response Team, when queried by reporters, revealed that a utility company in Springfield, Illinois was hacked.
The details beyond that are hazy. As Wired pointed out, one of Springfield's water utility companies is City Water, Light and Power. A spokeswoman at the company denied that an incident had occurred there, and suggested that it may have happened to systems managed by another utility company, Curran-Gardner Public Water District. Curran-Gardner refused to comment.
...Two to three months before the discovery of the hack, operators noticed "glitches" in the remote access to the SCADA system. "They just figured it's part of the normal instability of the system," said Joe Weiss, cybersecurity expert and managing partner at Applied Control Solutions, who obtained a copy of the report. "But it wasn't until the SCADA system actually turned on and off that they realized something was wrong." - Threat Level
