Virus Attacks a European Utility
Event Year: | 2003 | Reliability: | Likely But Unconfirmed |
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Country: | Europe | ||
Industry Type: | Power and Utilities | ||
Description: | A European utility reported that a virus attacked their Distribution SCADA system and this resulted in partial unavailability of the system functions. The utility reported they lost complete view of numerous distribution substations (for 3 days) by the operators in the control center. (#2) |
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Impact: | It took approximately 40 person-weeks (over a 4 calendar-week period) to correct the problem. Since there was no electric power lost there was no requirement for the utility to report the incident. (#2) |