CI-SOC Attacked

Gen Turgidson, the Director of the National Critical Infrastructure Security Operations Center (CI-SOC), announced this morning from the Delano City Hall, that the CI-SOC was temporarily shutdown because of a cyber-attack on the facility. “At this point it looks like the building energy management system was attacked by some unknown party,” he said, “at 3:00 this morning the power to the cooling system for our server room was shut down. Emergency power systems started, but there is still no power getting to the cooling system.”

As the server room started to approach critical temperatures, the CI-SOC personnel started their shutdown procedure, but there were a number of power surges that may have damaged the servers. “We will not know for sure if there was any data loss until we can restart the systems when the power problems are taken care of.” Turgidson explained, “We, of course, have complete backups stored in our backup facility.”

Johnathan Quest, spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Inquiry, confirmed that the agency was conducting an investigation of the CI-SOC attack in conjunction with the CI-SOC investigators.

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