A cyberattack hit CS Energy in Australia on Saturday, November 27, experts believe the attack was orchestrated by Chinese hackers.
The attack was detected and neutralized just in time, before it had the potential to shut down two major thermal coal plants.
“If the attack had been successful, 3500 megawatts of power would have been taken out of the grid, enough for between 1.4 and three million homes.” reported the website News.com.au.
The quick response of CS Energy avoided the catastrophe, the CEO Andrew Bills explained that the company isolate the corporate network from the Callide and Kogan Creek power stations to prevent impacting their generators.
The company notified Federal and state agencies and retained cyber security experts to investigate the incident.
