Report: Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Brazil

Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affected three million people in 2007.

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Report: Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Brazil

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