German Steel Mill Cyber Attack

Event Year: 2014 Reliability: Confirmed
Country: Germany
Industry Type: Metals
Description:

Multiple attackers used an advanced social engineering attack to gain access to the company network and then worked their way onto the control system network.  This resulted in an incident where a furnace could not be shut down in the regular way and the furnace was in an undefined condition which resulted in massive damage to the whole system.”

Impact:

A furnace could not be shut down in the regular way and the furnace was in an undefined condition which resulted in massive damage to the whole system.”