Energy companies face a rising tide of cybercrime The increasingly digital power grids of western Europe and the US may be especially vulnerable to hacking-related blackouts. Scott Heins/Getty Images On 15 October 2020, a US court in Pennsylvania charged six individuals working for Russian intelligence for their role in “Sandworm”. In addition to hacking into chemical laboratories in the UK and the Netherlands, and targeting victims at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea, Sandworm stood accused of a cyber attack on Ukraine’s electricity grid in 2015.
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Part of New Statesman Media Group This attack – in the year after Russia’s annexation of Crimea – was the first known example of a successful cyber attack on a power grid. Thirty electrical substations were switched off and around 230,000 people were left without electricity for up to six hours.
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