CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Powerplants are extremely vulnerable to attacks.
Let's connect the dots.
Officials say firearms were used to help disable equipment at a substation in Moore County. It could have easily happened as oftentimes substations just have cameras and motion sensors. But they usually don't have a person guarding the facility. And it's not just physical security.
Cybersecurity could arguably be a bigger concern. The modernization of these facilities makes them more susceptible to hackers. It could lead to massive outages that could take officials days or months to respond to.
And there's a lot to protect.
Duke Energy manages 32,000 miles of transmission lines that feed into some 5,000 substations all making it easy for an unbeknownst attack.
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