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Message   Warpslide    August Abolins   Re: Water Treatment Plant Hacked Using Teamviewer   February 12, 2021
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On 12 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...
 
 AA> Considering that no one is offering any details on the specific  
 AA> hack, and considering that Teamviewer was used (I've use that  
 AA> program in the past too) I would bet that the "hack" was  
 AA> someone's kid who managed to play around with his parent's  
 AA> Teamviewer configuration when the parent wasn't around to  
 AA> notice.

The "hack" was that the attacker obtained/guessed the password for TeamViewer
and then that same password was used everywhere else:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/11/us/florida-wat...


Jay

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