Port facility in Venezuela hit by a hacking attack

Summary:

In December 2002, during the general strike a port facility in Venezuela hit by a hacking attack. Someone, possibly an employee involved in the general strike, remotely accessed the SCADA system to erase all PLC programs in port facility in order to decrease the national production of oil in Venezuela. All of the Programmable Logistic Controllers were erased in a port facility, preventing tanker loading for eight hours, causing the national production of oil in Venezuela to decrease from 3 million BPD to 300 thousand BPD.

Reference URL

https://www.risidata.com/Database/Detail/electronic-sabatoge-of-venezuela-oil-operations
https://www.tofinosecurity.com/sites/default/files/Cyber_Security_and_The_Pipeline_PGJ_Feb_2009.pdf
https://www.tofinosecurity.com/blog/sample-ics-security-incident-hackers-shut-down-crude-oil-loading-terminal-8-hours
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