US Army cuts off power to their largest military base for testing the reaction to a cyberattack -

The largest US Military base is Fort Bragg. As it happens to be, the base last week issued an apology following their test exercise where they were trying to observe the reaction in the unlikely event of a cyberattack.

The base reportedly lost the power to its facility for nearly 12 hours in between Wednesday and Thursday last week which led to mass confusion and concern to rise related to base in the US.

Army officers, in an interview with media, said that the exercise performed was designed to “identify shortcomings in our infrastructure, operations, and security.” The exercise was also not announced to the public for the sake of “replicating likely real-world reactions by everyone directly associated with the installation.”

The power was cut off at around 10 PM EST on Wednesday last week and was restored over the course of Thursday afternoon gradually. Residents of the Fort Bragg reported some of the following issues regarding the blackout that happened on Facebook and Twitter.

Traffic Issues were caused due to traffic lights going out
Trouble in getting updates for official documents
The confusion caused by lack of the updates from official sources

The US Army apologized for their actions that cause the concern along with explaining the need to perform this exercise that it was a part of their test for the base in order for them to “determine the readiness and resiliency of the installation in a real-world scenario. With that said, our objectives have been met and as many of you know, everything is back to normal.”

In recent few years, the higher-ups have become highly worried about the increased concern of the country’s power grid as well as its infrastructure to be highly vulnerable to such cyberattack.

Also, such cyberattacks are not that much unheard of as many Ukraine power plants as well as airports suffered the same cyberattacks. According to US officials, they suspect that many of the US Facilities are being targeted for cyberattacks from Russian linked hackers.