{"id":3316,"date":"2026-08-01T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/trump-blames-tim-walz-for-water-hacks-even-though-its-probably-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:23:35","slug":"trump-blames-tim-walz-for-water-hacks-even-though-its-probably-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/trump-blames-tim-walz-for-water-hacks-even-though-its-probably-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump blames Tim Walz for water hacks even though it\u2019s probably Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"Donald Trump speaks during the House Republican Party member retreat. | Image: Mandel NGAN \/ AFP via Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Mandel NGAN \/ AFP via Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/gettyimages-2254307754.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tDonald Trump speaks during the House Republican Party member retreat. | Image: Mandel NGAN \/ AFP via Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FBI, the EPA, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news-events\/cybersecurity-advisories\/aa26-097a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CISA<\/a>) have stopped short of officially blaming Iran for a spate of cyberattacks on Minnesota&rsquo;s water systems, but consensus is that Iran is likely behind them. That, of course, hasn&rsquo;t stopped Donald Trump from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/31\/trump-minnesota-water-hacks-iran-01021161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sharing his own theory<\/a> &#8211; that Governor Tim Walz is to blame and telling reporters that \u00ab\u00a0I don&rsquo;t think there was an Iranian cyberattack.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&rsquo;s comments come shortly after the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/PSA\/2026\/PSA260730.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a warning<\/a> that the cyberattacks on American infrastructure were spreading to other states. In Minnesota alone, at least 30 community water systems had been targeted in what a \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/974197\/trump-tim-walz-minnesota-water-hacks-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump speaks during the House Republican Party member retreat. | Image: Mandel NGAN \/ AFP via Getty Images The [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}