Telco Shuts Off Critical SCADA Comms
Event Year: | 2003 | Reliability: | Confirmed |
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Country: | Canada | ||
Industry Type: | Petroleum | ||
Description: | Staff working for a telecommunications provider accidentally shut a critical circuit for communications between the SCADA operations centre and field stations on a liquid pipeline. |
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Impact: | SCADA operations was required to dispatch field crews to manually operate the field stations. |