{"id":4731,"date":"2026-08-01T23:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2026-08-01T23:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:42:46","slug":"amid-fears-of-iranian-cyberattacks-michigan-joins-minnesota-in-reporting-hackers-targeted-water-systems-the-fbi-is-now-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4731","title":{"rendered":"Amid fears of Iranian cyberattacks, Michigan joins Minnesota in reporting hackers targeted water systems. The FBI is now investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Earlier this week, authorities said cyberattacks targeted over 30 water systems in Minnesota. The source of the attacks is being investigated, but they came amid warnings that Iranian hackers have been focused on such systems.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4729\">Bessent joins Japan to help reverse months of yen losses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reports in Michigan surfaced after the state received a federal cyber alert Tuesday about attempts to tamper with operational technology at water systems.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Soon after, the state received \u201ca small number of reports from Michigan communities indicating activity consistent with what federal agencies described,\u201d said Dale George, the director of communications at the state\u2019s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. He later said nine systems were impacted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll systems continued to operate safely, issues were addressed by local operators, and there are no known impacts that posed a public health concern,\u201d George said in an statement.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI, which is investigating, has not publicly identified a culprit and a spokesperson declined to say Thursday who the bureau thought might be responsible. The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other agencies warned in an advisory last week that Iranian hackers have been targeting water and wastewater systems and the operational controls of other critical infrastructure sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI is aware of recent public reporting around Water and Wastewater (WWS) sectors,\u201d the agency said in a statement Saturday. \u201cThe FBI and our interagency partners are fully engaged to protect critical infrastructure and we remain well-equipped to protect against cyber threats of all varieties.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Digital warfare has\u00a0become ingrained in military conflict, and local\u00a0water plants\u00a0or\u00a0healthcare facilities\u00a0often lack the funds and know-how to install the latest software patches or take other security steps. That has made them a\u00a0favorite target, both because of the relative ease of penetrating them and because of the panic such disruptions can cause.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s interest in the operations of water systems inside the U.S. dates back years. In 2016, the Justice Department\u00a0charged a group of Iranian hackers\u00a0in connection with a cyberattack targeting a small dam near New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4727\">Fed Chair Kevin Warsh talks a big game, but this market indicator will tell you if Wall Street trusts him after he caused a \u2018credibility shock\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Minnesota IT Services said that as of Thursday, there were no active requests from Minnesota communities for residents to modify usage of their drinking water. The state agency said most of the confirmed attacks involved technology that water systems use to remotely monitor and control equipment. It said that being impacted meant investigators confirmed there was malicious activity involving the system\u2019s technology and didn\u2019t mean every impacted community had their water service disrupted.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For a few hours on Monday, the city of Braham asked residents to minimize water use as they tried to determine why the water plant was offline. The city of about 1,700 people, located about 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Minneapolis, said in a news release that the water plant outage was due to a cyberattack, but it didn\u2019t cause any issue with water quality.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The city said the attackers shut down the operating controls that shut down the well and water treatment plant. That left the city for a time only able to provide residents with the water held in the water tower.<\/p>\n<p>In Plymouth, a city of about 80,000 located outside of Minneapolis, officials said on social media that their water infrastructure communications had been restored by Tuesday afternoon following a cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>During a\u00a0Cabinet meeting on Friday\u00a0at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that recent cyberattacks in Minnesota were the fault of the state, including Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz responded on social media, saying Trump \u201cknows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4725\">Trump promised \u2018rocket fuel.\u2019 The economy got a \u2018big yawn\u2019 housing bill and higher debt than defense costs instead<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, authorities said cyberattacks targeted over 30 water systems in Minnesota. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fbi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amid fears of Iranian cyberattacks, Michigan joins Minnesota in reporting hackers targeted water systems. 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