Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the attacker tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxide by a factor of more than 100The FBI has joined the hunt for a cyberattacker who briefly contaminated the water supply of a small Florida city as experts warned that the episode exposed the vulnerability of critical infrastructure systems. The hacker broke into the software system of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, a city of 15,000 people about 15 miles northwest of Tampa. Once inside they increased the amount of sodium hydroxide in the water by a factor of more than 100 to a level that could have inflicted serious harm on residents. SponsoredAlso known as lye, sodium hydroxide is an alkaline compound used to treat acidity in water. “This is dangerous stuff,” Bob Gualtieri, the

Source: The Times February 10, 2021 00:00 UTC