Former Kansas Water Facility Employee Pleads Guilty to Remotely Shutting Down Water System While ‘Intoxicated’

Former Kansas Water Facility Employee Pleads Guilty to Remotely Shutting Down Water System While ‘Intoxicated’
The Nitrate Removal Facility at the Des Moines Water Works plant in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 15, 2015. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
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A former employee of a rural central Kansas water facility pleaded guilty on Wednesday to tampering with its computer system and shutting down the plant, the Justice Department announced.

Wyatt Travnichek, 23, of Lorraine, pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a public water system and one count of reckless damage to a protected computer system during unauthorized access.

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