A recent cyberattack on a public water utility in Springfield, Ill. has stoked considerable concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. critical infrastructure equipment. Experts in the industrial control systems arena say that, while that attack was relatively inconsequential and not unsurprising given the vulnerabilities that exist, it may be a harbinger of things to come. The attack destroyed a pump at the facility when someone using a. IP address based in Russia gained access to the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system controlling the pump.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130285/4-lessons-from-the-springfield–ill–scada-cyberattack.html