“Our caretaker went down and when he got to the pumphouse, up on the screen was a sign ‘You have been hacked’.”
Residents of Binghamstown and Drum went two days without water. The attackers picked the pumping controls because the equipment came from Israel, not because of anything the village did. The scheme’s own volunteer admits Irish Water has far better firewalls than they do. It took all of Friday just to bypass the hacked system and let the water flow manually. A village pumphouse was one internet connection away from a foreign grudge.