Well go over the details and take a look at where global cases stand and later dogecoin is down as the theory of hits pressure record highs well take a look at the crypto landscape and where markets ended monday with tech show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with one of the biggest attacks on u. S. Infrastructure in history ransome seeing hackers have broken into the Colonial Pipeline one of the largest pipelines in the nation as it provides fuel for 45 percent of the eastern United States forcing it to be effectively shut down now Colonial Pipeline and the u. S. Government have both blamed ransomware for the massive outage pointing the finger at cyber criminal gangs who routinely hold data and Computer Networks hostage in exchange for Digital Currency payments joining us now to discuss this Cyber Security expert and president of dark intel todd shipley and blue bus cohost and investigative journalist ben swan now ben i want to start with you here what can you tell
U. S. Infrastructure in history ransom seeing hackers have broken into the Colonial Pipeline one of the largest pipelines in the nation as it provides fuel for 45 percent of the eastern United States forcing it to be effectively shut down now Colonial Pipeline and the u. S. Government have both blamed ransomware for the massive outage pointing the finger at cyber criminal gangs who routinely hold data and Computer Networks hostage in exchange for Digital Currency payments joining us now to discuss is Cyber Security expert and president of dark intel todd shipley and blue bus cohost and investigative journalist ben swan now ben i want to start with you here what can you tell us about the shutdown and who is actually behind it. Yes so its a pretty major shutdowns youre describing here 45 percent of all the Energy Supply for the east coast runs through this one pipeline which is based by the way right here in the atlanta area in alpharetta georgia but its injury is taking fuel all the way
Right here in the atlanta area in alpharetta georgia but its injury is taking fuel all the way through the east coast all the way through louisiana and then into texas ultimately to houston thats where it runs and what were talking about here is about 2500000 barrels a day of everything from diesel to gasoline to jet fuel that run through this pipeline so theres a lot thats at stake here theres a lot of infrastructure thats being affected by it that includes not only you know gasoline and the gasoline supply on the east coast but it also includes fuel for airports so the Charlotte Airport relies heavily on this pipeline for its fuel as does the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport the Busiest Airport in the world in atlanta so all of these issues are kind of you know piling up on top of each other and what we know is that its been 4 days now that this pipeline has been shut down because of hackers who were able to implicate it what theyre asking for as you said is some kind of a ransom p
That i suggest as a mass of what the causes are mean if youre looking at is it. Thats we look at the call was it political calls was it a religious inspired cause and so on moves that legislation globally in defining to terrorism how very very similar legal definitions are not what the investigations a word from but she certainly of what she do with the 4 people it was a man who went into the school with her own goal and she was killed School Pupils and teachers so its looking you know what is it whats caused a breakdown here we go over the bill and many. Of them used to explore as we go the cause the motive behind this. You know and its a difficult one for the investigators to try and i said something but what they will no doubt do is look at any other type of devices or anything every this this individuals possession and try and see what the motive is you know because we have that many causes know this this can be had if we investigated bush it is a european country and our history f
So lets dive right in. And we lead the program with one of the biggest attacks on u. S. Infrastructure in history ransom seeing hackers have broken into the Colonial Pipeline one of the largest pipelines in the nation as it provides fuel for 45 percent of the eastern United States forcing it to be effectively shut down now Colonial Pipeline and the u. S. Government have both blamed ransomware for the massive outage is pointing the finger at cyber criminal gangs who to me hold data and Computer Networks hostage in exchange for Digital Currency payments joining us now to discuss is Cyber Security expert and president of dark intel todd shipley cohost and investigative journalist ben swan now ben i want to start with you here what can you tell us about this shutdown and who is actually behind it. Yes so its a pretty major shutdown as youre describing here 45 percent of all the Energy Supply for the east coast runs through this. One pipeline which is based by the way right here in the atla