In the run-up to the November elections, Denmark accused Russia on Thursday of launching cyberattacks against a water utility firm in 2024 and 2025 that caused pipes to rupture and targeted government websites. This is the first time Copenhagen has openly linked such attacks to Moscow.
In late 2024, the Tureby Alkestrup Waterworks in Køge, 35 kilometers south of Copenhagen, was targeted by the pro-Russian hacker organization Z-Pentest, which changed water pressure and caused at least three pipes to rupture, according to Denmark’s Defence Intelligence Service. 450 homes lost water for an hour, while about 50 households went without it for seven hours.
The findings prompted Copenhagen to call in Russia’s ambassador. Troels Lund Poulsen, the minister of defense, described the attacks as “completely unacceptable”. The attack was successful, according to Jan Hansen, CEO of Tureby Alkestrup Waterworks, since the company had shifted to less secure, less expensive cybersecurity.
At a press conference on Thursday, Denmark’s minister of resilience and preparedness, Torsten Schack Pedersen, stated that although the attacks caused little harm, they demonstrated that “there are forces capable of shutting down important parts of our society.
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