Cloud Computing: Most Violent Cyber Attack Noted To Date – 2008 Pipeline Explosion Caused By Remote Hacking
December 14, 2014
Grazed from CTOVision. Author: Bob Gourley.
Reporting by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley in Bloomberg is shedding new light on a destructive attack against an oil pipeline that caused a massive explosion in Refahiye Turkey in 2008. The event occurred six years ago, but information is just coming out indicating the cyber attack component of this event.
Robertson and Riley’s reports indicate that the pipeline was fitted with sensors and cameras to monitor all 1099 miles of the pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean, but the blast did not trigger a single distress signal. They also did not trigger the massive explosion and continuing combustion in eastern Turkey…
Hackers, probably acting under the direction of Russia, had shut down alarms, cut off communications and then super-pressurized the crude oil in the line. Over 60 hours of video surveillance were erased by the hackers. There was a recording from an unknown IR camera that caught two individuals with laptop computers walking near the pipeline, according to Robertson and Riley…
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