Two Israeli water facilities were recently hit by cyber attacks, the Ynet news site reports, adding that the authorities say no damage was caused.
One of the facilities was in the Upper Galilee, and the other in the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council area, it adds.
The incidents follow an attack in April, blamed by Western intelligence on Iran, in which cyber hackers tried to increase chlorine levels in the water flowing to Israeli residential areas. A Western intelligence official told the Financial Times last month that hundreds of people would have been at risk of getting sick and that the attack was close to being successful. The head of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate hinted that the attack may have aimed to mix chlorine or other chemicals into the water supply.
The latest attacks targeted “two small sewage treatment facilities in agricultural areas, which were repaired immediately by the local authorities, with no damage to services and no practical impact,” according to Israel’s Water Authority, as quoted by Ynet.
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