So About That Iranian Cyberattack on Our Water Supply

Jurisprudence Aug 19, 20262:58 PM Samuel Corum/Getty Images Sign up for Executive Dysfunction, a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story each week about how Trump is changing the law—and how the law is pushing back. You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. On July 30, the FBI, Environmental Protection Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint statement confirming that “malicious cyber actors” had successfully infiltrated municipal water facilities in at least seven states, a count that has since grown to a dozen, forcing many of them offline. The attacks were inconsequential in one sense—there were no reports of contaminated water, though some systems suffered pressure drops and issued precautionary boil-water