Around midday yesterday (29 April), Spain and Portugal experienced a mass power outage that affected the entire Iberian Peninsula, thrusting both countries into states of emergency. While power has now been restored to most of Spain and Portugal, the two countries are now looking into what caused the massive outage. Authorities in both Spain and Portugal are investigating a number of possibilities and theories, with Spanish prime minister (PM) Pedro Sanchez stating that his administration is “not ruling out any hypothesis”. Cyberattack fearsWith a blackout of such scale, one of the initial theories suggested that the outage was caused by a cyberattack. In his speech concerning the blackout, Spain’s PM stressed the importance of seeking information through “official channels” and to avoid speculation.