Federal Analysis Says Sabotage of Nine Key Substations Is Sufficient for Broad Outage. The U.S. could suffer a coast-to-coast blackout if saboteurs knocked out just nine of the country's 55,000 electric-transmission substations on a scorching summer day, according to a previously unreported federal analysis.
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Mar 17, 2014 · (The Wall Street Journal) - The U.S. could suffer a coast-to-coast blackout if saboteurs knocked out just nine of the country's 55000 ...
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Mar 13, 2014 · A coordinated attack on just nine of the United States' 55,000 electric-transmission substations on the right day could cause a blackout from ...
Mar 12, 2014 · The study by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission concluded that coordinated attacks in each of the nation's three separate electric systems ...
Mar 13, 2014 · The U.S. could suffer a national blackout if attackers knocked out just nine of the country's electric-transmission substations on a hot ...
Mar 13, 2014 · There could be coast-to-coast blackouts for weeks if nine key substations were knocked out, according to a Federal Energy Regulatory ...
Aug 28, 2022 · Bill Whitaker reports that a coordinated attack on a relatively small number of critical substations could plunge the U.S. into darkness.
... United States, the potential still exists for such attacks to cause a wide-scale, long-lasting outage. The first blackouts attributed to a cyberattack ...