Madrid: The Spain government on Wednesday dismissed a cyber attack on the National Grid operator as a huge blackout of unknown origin, which dismissed the Iberian Peninsula last month.
Outage cuts of April 28 have been scratched by authorities to find answers for more than two weeks after telecommunications, stopping transport and immersed to cities in the darkness in Spain and Portugal.
Spanish grid operator Red Electric said it did not detect any “cyber security incident” during the crisis, when the government refused to refuse any possible explanation.
“After analyzing all the relevant data, we have not received the indication that the system operator was targeted by cyber attack,” the ecological infection minister Sarah Essen told Parliament.
Aagesen provided a detailed chronology of events, stating that two major power fluctuations were recorded at 12:33 PM (1033 GMT) before the grid collapsed.
He also revealed the exact location of three incidents, which triggered outages, substations in the southern provinces of Grenada, Badajoz and Sevile.
The authorities are analyzing a potential link between power companies and Red Electric with millions of data with millions of data, Aagesen said.
He criticized the right-wing opposition, which has questioned the growing dependence of the socialist-led government on renewable energy and a planned stage-out of nuclear power.
Investigation in outage “will last longer as required” and “We will not allow us to take us away from the truth in a hurry”, Aagen said.
