Britain says no proof of Sellafield nuclear web site hacking

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Britain has no information or proof to recommend that networks on the Sellafield nuclear web site have been the sufferer of a profitable cyber assault by state actors, the federal government mentioned on Monday following a report by the Guardian newspaper.

The Guardian reported that Sellafield, which carries out nuclear gas reprocessing, nuclear waste storage and decommissioning, had been hacked by cyber teams intently linked to Russia and China.

“Our monitoring programs are sturdy and we’ve a excessive diploma of confidence that no such malware exists on our system,” the federal government mentioned. “This was confirmed to the Guardian properly upfront of publication, together with rebuttals to plenty of different inaccuracies of their reporting.”

Sellafield, managed by the federal government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, is situated in northwest England and has 11,000 workers.

In a separate assertion, Britain’s Workplace for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) additionally mentioned it had seen no proof that state actors had hacked its programs because the paper had described.

However the regulator mentioned Sellafield was at the moment not assembly sure excessive requirements of cyber safety it required, including that it had positioned the plant below “considerably enhanced consideration.

“Some particular issues are topic to an ongoing investigation course of, so we’re unable to remark additional at the moment,” the ONR mentioned.

The Guardian report mentioned the ONR was “believed” to be getting ready to prosecute people at Sellafield for cyber failings.

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