Hacktivists have breached Canadian critical infrastructure systems to meddle with controls that could have led to dangerous conditions, marking the latest in a string of real-world intrusions driven by online activists rather than spies.

In a joint alert issued this week , the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said industrial control systems (ICS) had been manipulated by hacktivists – not for money, but for the thrill and headlines.

The victims included a municipal water facility where pressure values were changed, an oil and gas company whose tank gauge was tampered with, and a farm silo where drying temperatures were altered, "resulting in potentially unsafe conditions if not caught on time."

Officials stressed these weren't sophisticated, state-

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