Confusion Center: Feds Now Say Hacker Didn’t Destroy Water Pump

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/scada-hack-report-wrong/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
November 22, 2011

A report from an Illinois intelligence fusion center saying that a water 
utility was hacked cannot be substantiated, according to an announcement 
released Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security.

Additionally, the department disputes assertions in the fusion center 
report that an infrastructure-control software vendor was hacked prior 
to the water utility intrusion in order to obtain user names and 
passwords to break into the utility company and destroy a water pump.

The DHS notice, released late Tuesday, asserts that information released 
by the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center earlier this 
month about the water pump was based on raw and unconfirmed data, 
implying that it should never have been made public.

But Joe Weiss, a control system expert who first reported the 
information from the fusion report, is skeptical of the new claim by the 
government that the report was all wrong.

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