Report confirms cyberattack on water installations last month

In the context of the Fox News report of an Iranian cyberattack, Ynet reports that a series of water infrastructure installations throughout the country came under attack on April 24-25.

It says that the water and sewage corporations were given an immediate instruction to change their passwords in the wake of the attack, “with an emphasis on operational systems and specifically systems for adding chlorine to wells.”

According to the report, sites whose passwords couldn’t be changed were told to disconnect from the internet.

A cyber security official in Israel’s Water Authority was quoted as saying in a message to the National Cyber Directorate that despite several reports of attacks, there was no “operational damage that would affect the water supply or sewage removal.”