US says national water supply 'absolutely' vulnerable to hackers

The US' drinking water supplies have "absolutely inadequate" cybersecurity and could be disrupted, warn senior officials. — Bloomberg

Cyber defenses for US drinking water supplies are "absolutely inadequate" and vulnerable to large-scale disruption by hackers, a senior official said Thursday.

"There's inadequate resilience to even a criminal sector," the official said. "The threshold of resilience is not what it needs to be."