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The affected company claims outage was caused by an “external interference.”
Looks like hackers are hell bent on giving Ukrainians a glimpse of stone age by keep on targeting country’s power sector. In the latest, Ukraine’s national energy company has become a victim of what could be a massive cyber attack.
Ukrenergo, the national energy company, experienced power failure this Saturday. In a post on Facebook, the director of the firm Vsevolod Kovalchuk stated that the outage has mainly occurred on the northern side of Kiev and its nearby areas. According to the understanding of engineers at the company, the outage was caused by an “external interference” and the breach was materialized through “data network.”
The cyber-security experts were immediately handed over the task of investigating the matter and resolving the issue so that the power could be resumed. To address the issue, Ukrenergo engineers had to switch back to manual mode. The power restoration process was completed in 30 minutes whereas complete repairing of the issue was carried out within an hour and 15 minutes.
Read more: Ukraine Suffers Power Outage Possibly Due to Energy Plant Hack
Looks like hackers are hell bent on giving Ukrainians a glimpse of stone age by keep on targeting country’s power sector. In the latest, Ukraine’s national energy company has become a victim of what could be a massive cyber attack.
Ukrenergo, the national energy company, experienced power failure this Saturday. In a post on Facebook, the director of the firm Vsevolod Kovalchuk stated that the outage has mainly occurred on the northern side of Kiev and its nearby areas. According to the understanding of engineers at the company, the outage was caused by an “external interference” and the breach was materialized through “data network.”
The cyber-security experts were immediately handed over the task of investigating the matter and resolving the issue so that the power could be resumed. To address the issue, Ukrenergo engineers had to switch back to manual mode. The power restoration process was completed in 30 minutes whereas complete repairing of the issue was carried out within an hour and 15 minutes.
Read more: Ukraine Suffers Power Outage Possibly Due to Energy Plant Hack
