The U.S. now likens cyberattacks to terrorism. Here's what that could mean

The director of the FBI compares this moment to 9/11: A time of reckoning about a threat that’s increasingly proven its ability to destabilize society.

He’s referring to cyberattacks.

Recent digital ransom attacks have accelerated an acknowledgment in Washington that the current trajectory is untenable. 

That’s after meat plants were shuttered temporarily including in Canada this week; after cars lined up at empty U.S. gas stations when a major pipeline was hacked. 

A hacker recently tampered with chemical levels at a water-treatment plant

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