International Steel Mills
January 9, 2015
German Report Reveals Cyber Attack on Steel Plant
Written by Sandy Williams
A report by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) reveals that in 2014 a German steel mill suffered serious physical damage from malicious hacking of its computer system.
Unknown hackers broke into the mill’s office network with “sophisticated spear phishing” and worked their way through to the production network. The intrusion caused multiple system failures preventing a safe shutdown of one of the blast furnaces, resulting in “massive” unspecified damage.
