Hackers try to poison drinking water in Florida

FLORIDA:

A hacker gained unauthorized entry to the system controlling the water treatment plant of a Florida city of 15,000 and tried to taint the water supply with a caustic chemical. The hacker who breached the system at the city of

Oldsmar's water treatment plant on Friday using a remote access program shared by plant workers briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide by a factor of one hundred (from 100 parts per mn to 11,100 parts per mn ).