Russia-linked hacking group claims to have targeted Indiana water plant

Hackers targeted a wastewater treatment plant in Indiana on Friday evening, prompting plant managers to send maintenance personnel to investigate the suspicious activity, a local official told CNN. A Russia-linked hacking group claimed responsibility. The same group claimed credit for a string of hacking incidents against water facilities in Texas earlier this year. “We were targeted and we have not been compromised,” Jim Ankrum, general manager of Tipton Municipal Utilities, told CNN. TMU provides electricity, water and wastewater treatment for Tipton, a town of 5,000 people that is about 40...