Utah based renewable energy provider hit by Cyber attack

Renewable energy provider from Utah - sPower was recently in the news as it was the target of a cyberattack which eventually made it lose connection with its power generation installations.

According to sources, this attack is said to have taken place during the month of April, and when reported to them, the site's reporters tracked down the root cause of the attack to an unpatched firewall, in September; today, the site revealed the name of the company which suffered the attack, along with other additional details.

According to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request the site filed with the Department of Energy (see a copy here, courtesy of Cyberscoop), on March 5, this year, an attacker used a vulnerability in a Cisco firewall to crash the device and break the connection between sPower's wind and solar power generation installations and the company's main command center.

The attack also didn't appear to be targeted in nature. The documents reveal that the hacker didn't continue their attack nor did they breach sPower's network following the initial exploit that crashed the unpatched firewall.