Hackers open floodgates at Norway's Risevatnet dam via control system
The control system of Norway's Risevatnet dam was hacked and its floodgates were opened. The attackers controlled the system for several hours. The head of Norway's intelligence service later attributed the attack to Russian hackers.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Dam control system taken over for several hours and floodgates opened
- Cause / method
- Hackers' intrusion into the dam control system
- Location
- Norway
Timeline
- It emerged that the Risevatnet dam control system had been taken over by hackers for several hours.
- The head of Norway's intelligence service blamed the dam hack on Russian hackers.
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