{"id":85050,"date":"2026-07-31T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85050"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:28:58","slug":"troubled-waters-minnesota-cities-weather-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/troubled-waters-minnesota-cities-weather-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran May Have Been Behind Cyberattack That Targeted Minnesota Water Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>KARE11:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Water systems at more than 30 communities were targeted earlier this week in what officials called a &#8220;coordinated cyberattack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Days after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/braham-water-plant-offline-residents-limit-water-use\/89-f3dbab4f-cb72-44b0-adfa-fda923f94e7f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">36 Minnesota water systems<\/a>\u00a0were hit by cyberattacks, U.S. cybersecurity leaders now say they are tracking a \u201csignificant increase\u201d in attacks on water systems nationwide and \u2013 according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/us\/politics\/minnesota-water-cyberattack-iran.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1lA.k33i.H2IarvxXxrGT&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> \u2013 U.S. investigators are looking at Iranian-affiliated hacking groups as the most likely culprit. For months, U.S. intelligence has been warning that Iranian-affiliated hackers are likely to attack our critical infrastructure, and just days before the attacks on Minnesota water systems, the FBI, EPA and other federal agencies issued a joint alert that Iranian-affiliated threat actors are targeting internet-connected technology, including programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that are tied to water systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From KARE11: Water systems at more than 30 communities were targeted earlier this week in what officials called a &#8220;coordinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85050"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85056,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85050\/revisions\/85056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}