Iran hackers shut UK power facility for 4 days

BREAKING: Iranian hackers reportedly shut down a UK power facility for four days in a major cyberattack.

Iranian hackers reportedly took a UK power facility offline for four days.

Four days. Not a flicker, not an outage that gets fixed overnight, a piece of British national infrastructure sitting dark for the better part of a working week. The reporting says the attack came from Iranian hackers, and if that attribution holds, this is one of the most serious cyber intrusions Britain has faced.

Details are still thin, which honestly is normal for these cases. Governments hate admitting how badly they got hit. But the pattern matters, state linked groups probing power grids has been the quiet fear of agencies like GCHQ for years, and this would be the fear made real.

Here's what I keep coming back to. Whoever did this wasn't after money. Shutting down a power plant is a message, and someone in London is now deciding how loudly to answer it.

This is Liu Yang, reporting for HIT.