Red Electrica, the company that manages Spain's national electricity grid, ruled out on Tuesday cyberattack as a cause of the large-scale blackout in the country.
"We have concluded that there was no intrusion into Red Electrica's control system," the company's head said, as quoted by El Pais newspaper, adding that the investigations into the blackout's causes continues.
On Monday, electricity and mobile phone networks were cut off in hundreds of businesses and homes in many parts of Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, A Coruna, Seville and other cities, at around 12:30 local time (10:30 GMT).
Power outages were also reported in Portugal.
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ReplyDeleteSpain's national transmission system operator has not found signs that a cyberattack was at the root of the massive power blackout in Spain and Portugal on Monday.
“With the analyses we have been able to carry out so far, we can rule out a cybersecurity incident in the electricity grid facilities at the Red Eléctrica control center," Red Eléctrica's head of system operation services Eduardo Prieto said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Prieto said the conclusions were preliminary, but said that so far, the operator had “been able to conclude that there has not been any type of intrusion in the electrical network control systems that could have caused the incident.”
España recupera casi la totalidad del suministro eléctrico. Esto, tras sufrir el peor apagón en su historia, que colapsó el funcionamiento de los servicios públicos y dejó sin suministro a millones de personas.
ReplyDeleteAún investigan las causas que provocaron los cortes. Desde el Gobierno descartan que fuera por una falta de potencia nuclear. La empresa proveedora del servicio, Red Eléctrica, apuntan a una posible caída de la generación solar. Además, afirman que no hubo ningún ciberataque.