Norway Spy Chief Blames Russian Hackers For Hijacking Dam

Russian hackers concisely hijacked a reservoir successful Norway successful early April and spilled millions of gallons of h2o earlier nan onslaught was stopped, Norway’s spy main revealed Thursday.

The hackers opened a floodgate astatine nan Bremanger reservoir successful occidental Norway to merchandise nan balanced of astir 3 Olympic-sized swimming pools of h2o during nan 4 hours they had power of nan dam’s machine systems. 

Beate Gangaas, nan caput of Norway’s information constabulary service, blamed nan cyberattack connected Russian hackers during a reside connected Thursday, first reported by Norwegian media.

The Russian embassy reportedly denied engagement successful nan breach, per Reuters.

This is nan latest incident allegedly involving Russian hackers sabotaging Western power systems successful caller years. Russia was previously blamed for cyberattacks connected Ukraine’s powerfulness grid that led to wide blackouts successful 2015 and 2016. Russia-backed hackers person long targeted nan power sector.