{
  "id": 16749,
  "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/05/iran-hackers-water-systems-plc-breach",
  "title": "Iranian hackers and America’s Achilles heel on water: default passwords",
  "summary": "The FBI and EPA say attackers accessed internet-connected Rockwell Automation controllers and changed their IP addresses and passwords.",
  "authors": "William Akoto, The Conversation",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T21:43:58.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T05:10:11.148Z",
  "source_slug": "x-fortune-ai",
  "source_name": "Fortune AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://fortune.com/section/artificial-intelligence/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16749",
  "original_url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/05/iran-hackers-water-systems-plc-breach",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}