Unfortunately in recent months we are getting used to living in our day to day with news that talks about how certain groups of hackers take advantage of all kinds of security holes to steal and sell all kinds of private data from large companies around the world.
You have proof of what I say in how just a few weeks ago Yahoo! suffered in their own flesh the theft of no less than 3.000 million accounts, although before this multinational we found names, such as LinkedIn. Imagine if now, instead of one of these services, we found out that a group of hacker has managed to gain access to the systems of a nuclear power plant in order of steal uranium.
A group of hacker manages to gain access to a nuclear power plant and steal enriched uranium.
Undoubtedly, we are talking about very serious news since stealing uranium can only have one objective, to manufacture nuclear bombs, with which we are talking about an action that could unleash a catastrophic war for humans. This is what could have happened, as he has confided Yukiya amano, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, about three years ago at a nuclear power plant whose name he did not want to comment.
As Yukiya Amano has commented, the purpose of stealing enriched uranium, rather than to make atomic bombs, was to create what is known as dirty bombs, a type of bomb where the use of conventional explosives is combined with radioactive material in order to contaminate the area where the bomb falls and detonates with radioactivity.
According to his own words Yukiya amano:
The nuclear power plant had to take some protective measures. Cyber attacks on nuclear power plants must be taken very seriously. We can never be sure that we know everything, or that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
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