Spain and Portugal power outage: what caused it, and was there a cyber-attack?
by Jasper Jolly from World news | The Guardian on (#6WXRR)
Several countries in Europe have been scrambling to restore electricity after a huge power cut causing blackouts
Spain, Portugal and some of south-west France suffered a massive power cut on Monday, with major cities including Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon among those affected.
Houses, offices, trains, traffic lights and even the Madrid open tennis tournament were all hit, causing chaos for millions of people and prompting a scramble by the Spanish and Portuguese governments and network operators to understand the problem and race to fix it.
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