Frances Robles and Nicole Perlroth, NYT

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Hackers tried to poison water supply of Florida town

Attack in Tampa Bay area was caught before it could inflict harm

In a photo provided by Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri of Pinellas County at a news conference on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Gualtieri spoke about how hackers remotely accessed the water treatment plant of a small Florida city last week and briefly changed the levels of lye in the drinking water, in the kind of critical infrastructure intrusion that cybersecurity experts have long warned about.

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