# National Cyber Security Centre

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-08-23**: Incident publicly disclosed — The Telegraph reports the attack as the first successful Iranian cyberattack to bring a UK electricity-generating facility offline. UK government had already briefed energy company executives and businesses and reported the incident to the NCSC.
- **2026-07**: Suspected Iran-linked cyberattack disables UK power plant — Hackers linked to Iran reportedly shut down an unnamed UK power plant for four days while staff worked to restore it. Officials said the facility was small and the outage had no meaningful impact on national generating capacity.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Iran-linked hackers shut UK power plant for 4 days in first-of-kind attack
2026-08-23 08:24:52 · Sentiment: Strongly negative · Impact: 9/10 · Sources: 2

The first documented Iran-linked cyberattack to force a UK electricity-generating facility offline kept an unnamed plant dark for four days. UK officials briefed energy CEOs and referred the incident to the NCSC, signaling elevated concern over operational technology targeting.
Full story: https://getcyberbrief.com/story/iran-linked-hackers-shut-uk-power-plant-4-days

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