"Electric Car Charging Stations May Be Portals for Power Grid Cyberattacks"

A new study conducted by researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering has brought attention to the possible launch of cyberattacks on urban power grids through the exploitation of electric car charging stations. The connection between electric vehicle charging stations and plug-in electric cars is a high-wattage access point that could be abused by hackers to impact the grid. This article continues to discuss how electric car charging stations and electric vehicles could be exploited to execute an attack on a power grid, along with other incidents in which a power grid has been crippled by hackers and the importance of developing a cybersecurity protocol to protect data produced by electric car charging stations. 

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