Sellafield nuclear site hit with £332,500 fine after ‘significant cybersecurity shortfalls’

The UK’s Sellafield nuclear waste processing and storage site has been fined £332,500 by regulators after its IT systems were found to have been left vulnerable to hackers and unauthorised access for years.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) described the Sellafield site as “one of Europe’s largest industrial complexes, managing more radioactive waste in one place than any other nuclear facility in the world.”

As such, you would like to imagine that cybersecurity would be taken extremely