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A cyber attack attributed to Iran-linked hackers knocked a small gas-fired facility offline in the United Kingdom, prompting security chiefs to brief energy company bosses across the sector.
The targeted site is a peaker plant: an installation that runs only when electricity demand is high and sits idle otherwise.
Officials told energy executives the briefings would include "advice, direction and next steps." The consultation reached the wider energy sector, beyond the operators of the affected plant alone.
The targeted facility was small and gas-fired. The briefing that followed covered the energy sector as a whole. military reports aiding passage of 660 million barrels of oil through Strait of Hormuz since May
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