Hackers hit US water treatment systems

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Originally Posted by Task Force

This makes me wonder, why is a important infrastructure system like this connected to the internet? Id think they would have them on a secure closed system.

I imagine a lot of them are probably not directly connected to the internet but they are connected to something that is connected to something which is connected to the internet and the firewalls between them are easily breached by hackers who know what they're doing.