Brazil’s latest power outage. Surely this is a coincidence, right?

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:39 Written by Jeffreycarr Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:39

On Sunday, November 8th, 60 Minutes aired its episode identifying a hacker attack as the cause of a 2007  power outage in Brazil.

On Monday, November 9th, Brazilian authorities denied that it was hackers, claiming instead “sooty insulators“.

On Tuesday, November 10th, a massive power outage impacts an estimated 90 million people. The dam operator says it wasn’t them; that the failure must have been at one or more points in the transmission system. Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA refuses to comment on the cause.

Now if a hacker named “Karma” would just claim credit for the attack…..