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03-03-2016, 12:26 AM
Why America should worry about ******s taking out a power plant in Ukraine
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Around 4 p.m. on Dec. 23, much of western Ukraine's pastoral Iva**-Frankivsk region, an area about the size of Connecticut, was plunged into darkness
The local electric utility in Iva**-Frankivsk ack**wledged the blackout in a ****** of frantic messages (http://www.oe.if.ua/showarticle.php?id=3412&id_cat=2) posted on its website. Power had been lost across a vast area of the region and the cause was unk**wn
Half an hour later, the utility said the outage was more widespread than originally assumed: About a quarter of a million customers were without electricity. Moreover, the utility had also lost control of its backup power supplies
See also: Pentagon divulges a new ****** against ISIS: cyberattacks (http://mashable.com/2016/03/01/pentagon-isis-cyberattacks/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/why-america-should-worry-about-******s-taking-out-a-power-plant-in-ukraine/)
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Around 4 p.m. on Dec. 23, much of western Ukraine's pastoral Iva**-Frankivsk region, an area about the size of Connecticut, was plunged into darkness
The local electric utility in Iva**-Frankivsk ack**wledged the blackout in a ****** of frantic messages (http://www.oe.if.ua/showarticle.php?id=3412&id_cat=2) posted on its website. Power had been lost across a vast area of the region and the cause was unk**wn
Half an hour later, the utility said the outage was more widespread than originally assumed: About a quarter of a million customers were without electricity. Moreover, the utility had also lost control of its backup power supplies
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