{"id":123908,"date":"2021-06-17T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T18:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-hacker-tried-to-poison-a-calif-water-supply-it-was-as-easy-as-entering-a-password"},"modified":"2021-06-17T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T18:23:44","slug":"a-hacker-tried-to-poison-a-calif-water-supply-it-was-as-easy-as-entering-a-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-hacker-tried-to-poison-a-calif-water-supply-it-was-as-easy-as-entering-a-password","title":{"rendered":"A hacker tried to poison a Calif. water supply. It was as easy as entering a password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-hacker-tried-to-poison-a-calif-water-supply-it-was-as-easy-as-entering-a-password.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 15, a hacker tried to poison a water treatment plant that served parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It didn\u2019t seem hard.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker had the username and password for a former employee\u2019s TeamViewer account, a popular program that lets users remotely control their computers, according to a private report compiled by the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center in February and seen by NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>After logging in, the hacker, whose name and motive are unknown and who hasn\u2019t been identified by law enforcement, deleted programs that the water plant used to treat drinking water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 15, a hacker tried to poison a water treatment plant that served parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It didn\u2019t seem hard. The hacker had the username and password for a former employee\u2019s TeamViewer account, a popular program that lets users remotely control their computers, according to a private report compiled by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-law-enforcement","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}