China's Cyber Threat to US Water Supplies: A Growing Concern The possibility of a Chinese backed attack on the United States' water supply infrastructure has garnered significant attention in recent years.
The threat is not new, but its severity and implications are only now beginning to sink in. A recent war game simulation observed by WIRED shed light on the potentially catastrophic consequences of such an attack.
In the scenario, hackers allegedly sponsored by the Chinese military disrupted 5,000 water utilities across the country, leading to widespread outages and chaos.