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Ukraine’s Power Outage Due to Cyberattack, Says Country’s National Power Company

By CircleID Reporter
  • January 18, 2017, 6:49 pm PST
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A power blackout in Ukraine’s capital Kiev last month was caused by a cyber attack, according to Ukraine’s National power company, Ukrenergo which hired investigators to help it determining the cause. Reuters reporting today:“A power blackout in Ukraine’s capital Kiev last month was caused by a cyber attack and investigators are trying to trace other potentially infected computers and establish the source of the breach, utility Ukrenergo told Reuters on Wednesday. ... Preliminary findings indicate that workstations and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, linked to the 330 kilowatt sub-station “North”, were influenced by external sources outside normal parameters, Ukrenergo said in comments emailed to Reuters.”

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