{"id":26754,"date":"2026-08-07T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26754"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:22:08","slug":"fbi-warns-of-cyberattacks-on-municipal-water-systems-across-seven-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/fbi-warns-of-cyberattacks-on-municipal-water-systems-across-seven-states\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Warns of Cyberattacks on Municipal Water Systems Across Seven States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subheading\">The FBI has issued an urgent warning after hackers targeted municipal water systems in at least seven states over the past week, prompting concerns about the vulnerability of critical water infrastructure across the nation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">NBC News\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/security\/hackers-targeted-municipal-water-systems-7-states-week-fbi-says-rcna590210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that the FBI and the EPA released a joint\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/investigate\/cyber\/alerts\/2026\/malicious-cyber-actors-targeting-water-and-wastewater-sector-internet--facing-programmable-logic-controllers-causing-operational-disruptions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">public service announcement<\/a>\u00a0warning water and wastewater utilities nationwide that malicious cyber actors are attempting to disrupt critical water infrastructure. Water utilities in multiple states have reported cybersecurity incidents, the agencies said, and some attacks have degraded water operations. The warning follows a breach in Minnesota, where hackers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2026\/07\/31\/feds-warn-water-systems-of-rising-cyber-threats-following-minnesota-attacks\/\">targeted<\/a>\u00a0more than 30 municipal water facilities in an attack.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2026\/08\/03\/fbi-warns-of-cyberattacks-on-municipal-water-systems-across-seven-states\/\">breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d padok\" data-google-query-id=\"CNzQktvuj5YDFXupywEd8DonMA\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI has issued an urgent warning after hackers targeted municipal water systems in at least seven states over the past week, prompting concerns about the vulnerability of critical water infrastructure across the nation. NBC News\u00a0reports\u00a0that the FBI and the EPA released a joint\u00a0public service announcement\u00a0warning water and wastewater utilities nationwide that malicious cyber actors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/fbi-warns-of-cyberattacks-on-municipal-water-systems-across-seven-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI Warns of Cyberattacks on Municipal Water Systems Across Seven States<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Xw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26755,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26754\/revisions\/26755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}