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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Anna Isaac and Alex Lawson

Sellafield ordered to pay nearly £400,000 over cybersecurity failings

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The regulator found that 75% of computer servers at Sellafield were vulnerable to cyber-attack. Composite: Guardian Design/Alamy

Sellafield will have to pay almost £400,000 after it pleaded guilty to criminal charges over years of cybersecurity failings at Britain’s most hazardous nuclear site.

The vast nuclear waste dump in Cumbria left information that could threaten national security exposed for four years, according to the industry regulator, which brought the charges. It was also found that 75% of its computer servers were vulnerable to cyber-attack.

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