isn t the kind of place you d think would be at the heart of an international cyber attack suspected of being carried carried out by hackers that have cooperated with a sophisticated russian military intelligence unit but a new report says, this city s water treatment facility computer system was attacked by suspected russian hackers in january, causing a water tank to overflow the city manager said it overflowed for about 30 to 45 minutes. the question that comes to mind is, why a water treatment facility and why in a place like mule shoe, texas, right? it s a great question. gas serena is a cybersecurity expert focused on the vulnerability of public water systems an organization may think we re kind of too small. we re not high enough strategic value for some nation-state adversary to come after us. however victims are finding that they are affected simply because of the technology that they have that s sitting unprotected on the internet and findable and exploitable in the repor