Hackers working for a foreign government recently breached at least a dozen U.S. power plants, including the Wolf Creek nuclear facility in Kansas, according to current and former U.S. officials, sparking concerns the attackers were searching for vulnerabilities in the electrical grid.
The rivals could be positioning themselves to eventually disrupt the nation’s power supply, warned the officials, who noted that a general alert was distributed to utilities a week ago. Adding to those concerns, hackers recently infiltrated an unidentified company that makes control systems for equipment used in the power industry, an attack that officials believe may be related.
The chief suspect is Russia, according to three people familiar with the continuing effort to eject the hackers from the computer networks. One of those networks belongs to an aging nuclear generating facility known as Wolf Creek -- owned by Westar Energy Inc., Great Plains Energy Inc. and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc. -- on a lake shore near Burlington, Kansas.
The New York Times also reports that there is evidence the hackers are Russian:
The two people familiar with the investigation say that, while it is still in its early stages, the hackers’ techniques mimicked those of the organization known to cybersecurity specialists as “Energetic Bear,” the Russian hacking group that researchers have tied to attacks on the energy sector since at least 2012.
Great so not only are the Russians undermining our democracy, but now there is evidence that they are trying to find a way to leave us completely in the dark.
And of course this was not brought up today during the highly anticipated Putin/Trump meetup.
So Putin was not confronted, and they essentially have a green light to continue doing what they have been doing without fear of retaliation.Between Putin and Trump, "There was not a lot of re-litigating of the past." - Tillerson— Simon Shuster (@shustry) July 7, 2017
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