Hackers target US Dam control systems

The US acknowledged that Iranian hackers were responsible for hacking into a Dam's online control systems in 2013. It is thought that the only reason that the water contained by the Dam wasn't released was because the sluice gate system was manually taken offline for maintenance. 

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