US Water and Power Are Shockingly Vulnerable to Cyberhacks

US Water and Power Are Shockingly Vulnerable to Cyberhacks
The Colonial Pipeline Smyrna Station in Cobb County, Ga., on May 10, 2021. John Spink/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS
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By Kartikay Mehrotra From Bloomberg News

When the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was hacked in 2018, it took a mere six hours. Early this year, an intruder lurked in hundreds of computers related to water systems across the United States. In Portland, Oregon, burglars installed malicious computers onto a grid providing power to a chunk of the Northwest.