Event description

As a result of a hacker attack on the MetalliKO iron and steel works, the automated steel production line has been halted. Hackers increased the supply of oxygen to the smelting converters, causing the steel to boil and spray all over the shop. The unscheduled repairs will take four weeks. The plant is facing huge losses.

Consequences

1. Damage to company property
2. Enterprise disruptions and downtime
3. Financial damage

This has happened before

Wired

A cyberattack has caused confirmed physical damage for the second time ever

Hackers had struck an unnamed steel mill in Germany. They did so by manipulating and disrupting control systems to such a degree that a blast furnace could not be properly shut down, resulting in "massive"—though unspecified—damage.