US Video Shows Hacker Hit on Power Grid

September 27, 2007 By TED BRIDIS and EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writers US Video Shows Simulated Hacker Attack (AP)

In this image from video released by the Department of Homeland Security, smoke pours from an expensive electrical turbine during a March 4, 2007, demonstration by the Idaho National Laboratory, which was simulating a hacker attack against the U.S. electrical grid. (AP Photo/Dept. of Homeland Security)

(AP) -- A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.

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