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Cyberattack on Ukraine grid: here's how it worked and perhaps why it was done

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imageCould the hack that took out the power grid in Ukraine happen in the U.S.? rainchurch/flickr, CC BY-SA

On December 23, 2015, two days before Christmas, the power grid in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine went down for a reported six hours, leaving about half the homes in the region with a population of 1.4 million without power, according to...

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