Sensitive Army database of U.S. dams compromised; Chinese hackers suspected

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http://freebeacon.com/the-cyber-dam-breaks/

By Bill Gertz
The Washington Free Beacon
May 1, 2013

U.S. intelligence agencies traced a recent cyber intrusion into a 
sensitive infrastructure database to the Chinese government or military 
cyber warriors, according to U.S. officials.

The compromise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ National Inventory 
of Dams (NID) is raising new concerns that China is preparing to conduct 
a future cyber attack against the national electrical power grid, 
including the growing percentage of electricity produced by 
hydroelectric dams.

According to officials familiar with intelligence reports, the Corps of 
Engineers’ National Inventory of Dams was hacked by an unauthorized user 
believed to be from China, beginning in January and uncovered earlier 
this month.

The database contains sensitive information on vulnerabilities of every 
major dam in the United States. There are around 8,100 major dams across 
waterways in the United States.

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