More dangerous than Chernobyl 6 times: hackers of the Russian Federation and China have broken the nuclear object of Britain known

According to journalists, the computer networks of the "most dangerous nuclear facility" in Selyfield broke hackers related to the Russian Federation and China. This week, the British edition of The Guardian wrote that the international hacker group from the Russian Federation and China has broken the network of the IT system of the largest nuclear object of the United Kingdom. About it reports Newsweek.

The journalistic investigation reports that the computer networks of the nuclear complex in Sellafield (located on the Irish Sea in the County Cambria), called the "most dangerous nuclear object China. According to the sources, the breaking was noticed in 2015, and the harmful software "built into the computer networks of Sellafield".

According to the British agency, which regulates nuclear energy-related issues (ONR), more radioactive waste was processed here than on any other nuclear facility in the world. It was built more than 70 years ago. During the Cold War, Plutonium was produced here for nuclear weapons, and by 2003 there was also a nuclear power plant. But in the future, they began to use as a platform to clear what remained from the nuclear heritage of the United Kingdom.

The Sunday Times estimates that there is a nuclear repository on the territory of the complex, which "is about six times more radioactivity than it was released during the Chernobyl NPP accident in 1986. " According to sources, the corresponding agencies have not been informed of the available problems in Selyfield for several years. In response to this article, ONR representatives stated that they did not find evidence of breakage in the described way.