Nuclear site hacked. Remember how at futurist meetings 10 or 20 years ago we'd talk about "science fiction" scenarios where critical infrastructure computers got hacked? Including nuclear power sites? Except this isn't a nuclear power site. Well, it's a nuclear site, but it doesn't generate power. Well, not any more. It was a power generation site, but there was a nuclear accident. This is known as the Windscale Pile no.1 fire, October 10, 1957. Windscale is near Seascale in the northern UK. After the radioactivity from that accident was contained, it became a reprocessing site for nuclear weapons. And got a name change from "Windscale" to "Sellafield". And it became a nuclear waste storage site. Today, it's considered so radioactive the purpose of the site is, allegedly, to decommission itself, and apparently that's so expensive it puts a major strain on the UK's budget.
The article says the hacking began in 2015, and that the journalists spent a year investigating it, and yet, paradoxically, says basically nothing about the hack. Who did it? "Groups linked to Russia and China". That's all we get to know. What did the hackers do? All we get to know is they got some documents. What sort of documents? We have this one sentence:
"Among the highly sensitive documents stored at Sellafield are disaster manuals, plans that guide people through emergency nuclear protocols and what to do during a foreign attack on the UK."
Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China
