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Spain reconsiders possibility of hackers causing blackouts
Spain is demanding answers from power suppliers about their cyber security in the wake of a day-long power outage, despite previous assessments suggesting hacking wasn’t to blame. At the end of April, the Iberian peninsula was hit by widespread power outages. Most of the areas hit in Spain and Portugal returned to normal after ten hours, though it took a…
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Blackouts in Spain and Portugal could be a cyber attack
Cybercriminals could be behind two massive national power outages affecting Spain and Portugal on Monday afternoon. At approximately midday ECT, electrical systems of all kinds started to break down across both nations, with only the countries’ islands unaffected. The French Basque Country is also reported to have suffered “brief power cuts”, according to Le Figaro. According to Spanish newspaper El…
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