An anonymous reader wrote “At 6:14 am Chile time on October 29th, the Atacama Submillimeter Interferometer Array Telescope suffered a severe cyber attack. The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Interferometer Array Telescope (ALMA) is the world’s The largest, highest and most sensitive millimeter-wave/submillimeter-wave interference array in the world is located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. ALMA is also the most widely invested ground telescope in the world, consisting of 66 observation antennas. The attack caused ALMA to stop Scientific Observations, all sites in Chile are offline. The attack did not cause damage to antennas or observation databases, and the cyber threat is now under control. However, ALMA has not returned to normal operations.”
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