You're probably thinking of the story Reed included in "At the Abyss," about a pipeline explosion from a trojan horse slipped in the Canadian control software. That was supposed to be in 1982. It's become an infamous legend about ICS attack.

Probably didn't happen though. There was definitely a big pipeline explosion at the time, though Reed's fact checking misses the location, and somewhat more importantly, the fact that Russian control systems weren't software-based at the time.

Although it was a fun legend, it probably started as a game of telephone (a/o paranoia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)