Another water system hacked - this one in Kansas. Former employee charged w/ gaining remote access and performing activities "that shut down processes at the facility which affect the facility’s cleaning and disinfecting procedures," per indictment. justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/ind…
Wyatt Travnichek was employed by Ellsworth County Rural Water District (aka Post Rock Rural Water District) for 1 yr before resigning in Jan 2019. On March 27, 2019, Post Rock experienced an unauthorized remote intrusion resulting in the shut-down of the facility’s processes.
Post Rock Water District serves more than 1,500 retail customers and 10 wholesale customers over eight Kansas counties. Post Rock’s processes include cleaning and disinfecting customers’ drinking water. In shutting down the cleaning processes, it could have affected public health
It sounds like this water system hack may have been enabled because system admins failed to revoke access privileges to the employee after he resigned from his job in Jan. But it's not clear from the indictment. Not enough details.
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