The Israel Water Authority has revealed that two of its facilities were exposed to an attempted electronic hacking without mentioning the party behind them, but denied that there had been any significant damage caused by this breach.
"The attacks targeted specific small drainage facilities in the agricultural sector and were promptly repaired," the Israeli Water Authority said in a statement, without further details.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said on its website last night that "a water facility in the north of the country and another in the center were attacked by a cyber attack, and Israeli officials did not specify who was behind these attacks."
The newspaper pointed out that this attack is the third in three months, and the second after another similar attack last April.
Last April, Israel charged Iran with responsibility for cyberattacks targeting water and sanitation facilities, during which passwords for operating water pumping systems were controlled.
After weeks, Israel declined to formally comment on a report published by the American Washington Post on Tuesday, in which it said that Israel was - most likely - who was behind the cyberattack that took place on May 9th and caused great damage to the work of the "Martyr Rajai" port in Bandar Abbas, Iran.
The newspaper, at the time, quoted sources in the US administration and other countries as saying that the cyberattack caused serious disruptions to movement in the Iranian port area, as computer systems that regulate the movement of ships, trucks, and cargo transportation have collapsed.
But a former Israeli security official suggested that Israel might have carried out the cyberattack, in response to an Iranian cyberattack on Israeli water infrastructure.