Rep. Turner says infrastructure should be "hardened" as U.S. probes if Iran is behind cyberattack on water systems
GOP Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio said critical infrastructure assets "need to be hardened" as investigators are probing whether Iranian hackers are behind malicious cyber activity that affected technology at water systems in U.S. states last week.
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Mike Turner of Ohio said on Sunday that critical infrastructure assets "need to be hardened" as federal investigators probe whether Iranian hackers were behind malicious cyber activity that affected technology at water systems in Minnesota and several other U.S. states last week.
The FBI said last week that at least seven states have reported cyber activity, which forced some utilities to switch to manual operations and prompted investigators to look into whether the activity is the work of Iranian hackers, U.S. officials and sources familiar with the incident told CBS News.
Meanwhile, President Trump said he didn't think the Iranians were behind the attack, claiming that Minnesota, one of the states that reported the incidents, was responsible.
He called the state's leadership "grossly incompetent" while pointing without evidence to Democratic Gov.
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