Eniac Cloud confirmed that yesterday’s interruption in their cloud service was due to a remotely piloted aircraft being flown into the substation supplying power to their Delano Datacenter. “All systems switched over to alternative routings within minutes and our customers were only momentarily discomforted,” Richard Brathwait, spokesperson for the company told reporters. “We expect to resume full service in the Delano Center within a couple of weeks.” Two transformers at the company leased substation will have to be replaced.
Johnathan Quest, Federal Bureau of Inquiry spokesperson, confirmed that the FBI was working with the Federal Airline Administration in investigating the incident. “We have identified the owner of the aircraft, Barkhorn Aviation, but they lost control of the aircraft when it was almost 75 miles away from the Delano facility.” Quest told reporters.
Oscar Holmes, spokesperson for the FAA, confirmed that the agency had seized the controller used by Barkhorn Aviation, an agricultural sprayer company, but that it was apparent that the controller did not have the range necessary to conduct the attack in Delano.
A spokesperson for Barkhorn told reporters that they lost control of their BF 109 drone about 8:00 am yesterday. “The operator saw the aircraft take a left turn from its last spraying run on a cotton field outside of Dothan, AL,” Erich Hartmann told reporters; “It was last seen flying over the trees to the east of the field that we were spraying.”
A technician at Eniac who is not authorized to speak to the press told me that there was some small amount of data lost in the attack that had not yet been backed up, but the system worked as it was designed. “We have contingencies for power outages, and the plan worked well,” she said.
Brathwait said that the prolonged outage at the Delano Center would slow some of the data flow through their cloud network, but that customers would not be able to notice the difference. “Temporary loss of a single facility in our cloud network is not a problem,” he explained.
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