Massive AP investigation concludes entire U.S. power grid could easily be brought down by foreign hackers
by: L.J. Devon
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, January 17, 2016
A silent war is escalating in the U.S., a war of hackers and cyber attackers. Enemies of the U.S. aren’t preparing to invade militarily; they have all the intelligence they need to tear down the U.S. from within, using technology to take down America’s power grid.
A massive AP investigation concluded that the entire U.S. power grid could be sabotaged by foreign hackers, leaving Americans with no light for an unspecified amount of time. With computer networks out and refrigeration shut down, most Americans wouldn’t be able to work or eat, leaving the masses starving and fighting among themselves.
Security researcher Brian Wallace accidentally discovered this horrifying reality when he was tracking down hackers who had stolen a California university’s housing files. He quickly learned that cyber hackers had found a way into the very networks that run the U.S. power grid, and that they had gained enough information to shut down electricity that millions of homes count on.
He discovered that the hackers had seized passwords and engineering drawings of multiple power plants spanning the U.S. The discovered cyber attack was carried out on Calpine Corp, an energy producer that supplies 82 plants in 18 states and Canada.
After conducting over 120 interviews and examining government reports and private analysis, cyber security experts believe that the amount of information taken is enough to allow skilled hackers to write malicious code to strike down the U.S. power grid at will. The latest breach has all the signs of originating from Iranian hackers. The breach, which started in August 2013, cannot be stopped completely and could still be occurring to this day.
“If the geopolitical situation changes and Iran wants to target these facilities, if they have this kind of information it will make it a lot easier,” said Robert M. Lee, a former U.S. Air Force cyber warfare operations officer. “It will also help them stay quiet and stealthy inside.”
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