(December 3, 1993) The integrity of the operating computer system of the Sizewell B reactor, currently under construction on England's east coast, has been subjected to severe criticism by computer professionals in the past.
(403.3920) WISE Amsterdam - Now, however, a group of amateurs have attacked some of the plant's computers with a virus that makes them play "Yankee Doodle Dandy." The virus is the trademark of a group of hackers from Bulgaria, plant spokesmen say. ("Yankee Doodle" is a satiric song deriving from the American Revolution, which seems pleasantly appropriate to a plant with a Westinghouse design imported from the States during the Thatcher years.)
Plant spokesmen say the virus has attacked only office computers, not the main operating system. The employee who brought the infected software onto the site without running it through a virus check has been summarily dismissed.
Source: Guardian (London), 11 Nov.1993.
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