Hackers connected to Iran knocked a UK power plant offline for four days last month, according to the Sunday Telegraph, which broke the story. It comes after Britain allowed the US to launch defensive operations against Tehran from British bases — a policy that stops short of offensive strikes.
The government said the incident hit a small-scale energy generator and that the wider energy system was never at risk. The National Cyber Security Centre is understood not to have logged any outages from regulated power station operators. Still, Iran's IRGC has warned that any base used for aggression against Iranian territory is a "legitimate target."
Britain's new PM Andy Burnham was notified last week that a decision had already been made to extend the US basing agreement.
Source: The Guardian