
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
- A war game simulated a Chinese cyberattack crippling 5,000 US water utilities.
- Cascading failures hit hospitals, insulin supply and cloud services within a day.
- It mirrors real fears over China's Volt Typhoon infrastructure hackers.
A WIRED journalist observed a private role-playing "war game" held in a Times Square office tower, in which a former US cybersecurity official, Joshua Corman, walked dozens of insurance executives through a simulated Chinese cyberattack on American water utilities set in July 2027. The exercise matters because it…





