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6 January 2015

Cyber-Attack Causes Massive Damage To German Steel Plant

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The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has revealed that there was a damaging cyber-attack on a German steel plant's ICS and furnace.
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The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has revealed that there was a damaging cyber-attack on a German steel plant's ICS and furnace. The BSI reported that the hackers first attacked the office network and from there the production networks. These attacks caused the failure of the numerous control components which affected the regulation of the blast furnace and led to "massive damage to machinery".

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