{
  "id": 220458,
  "title": "Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/over-4-400-rockwell-plcs-exposed-online-22-found-in-water-attack",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-06T12:16:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/over-4400-rockwell-plcs-exposed-online.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844 in the United States, but Forescout could not confirm any were compromised. That figure counts exposed",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}