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Spain rules out cyber-attack as cause of major power cuts

Spanish power company Red Eléctrica has ruled out a cyber-attack as the cause of Monday’s mass blackouts that left millions without power

Electric grids suffered two “disconnection events” , systems recovered from the first, but the second triggered the power cuts in Spain and Portugal, with no indication of human error

Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro also said there was no indication that a cyber-attack was behind the outages

Power has now been fully restored in Spain and Portugal but travel disruption continues

A woman at Barcelona train station says people “slept on the floor like dogs”, and school classes will not take place in many areas across Spain

 

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