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SELLAFIELD STAFF ‘USED HOME COMPUTERS TO BEAT SECURITY FAILINGS’

Cybersecurity fears grow amid claims Britain’s most hazardous nuclear site was
targeted by hackers linked to Russia and China

Tom Ball
, Northern Correspondent
Saturday December 09 2023, 1.30pm, The Times
Questions have been raised over security levels at Sellafield
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Tom Ball
, Northern Correspondent
Saturday December 09 2023, 1.30pm, The Times

Staff at Sellafield were asked to work on sensitive projects using their home
computers, a former employee has said, amid questions about cybersecurity at
Britain’s most hazardous nuclear site after claims it was hacked by groups
linked to Russia and China.

Claire Coutinho, the energy secretary, is due to meet representatives from the
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) after an investigation alleged that
state actors had embedded sleeper malware into the computer network at
Sellafield, the largest nuclear waste and decommissioning site in Europe.


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Sources told The Guardian that IT breaches had been detected as far back as
2015, and accused the organisation’s leaders of having “consistently covered up”
the scale of the intrusions.

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