EPA emphasizes vulnerabilities water utilities face in wake of Pennsylvania hack impacting industrial control systems

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is highlighting the importance of water utilities investing in basic cybersecurity measures, following a hack earlier this week to programmable logic controllers used by the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in Pennsylvania.

“EPA believes that water utilities, which provide drinking water and wastewater services that are essential to public health, need to incorporate cybersecurity measures into their operations and planning to reduce the risk of hacking from foreign and domestic actors,” EPA spokesperson Remmington Belford...