The Government’s War on Pipelines Made Us Vulnerable to Attacks on Our Infrastructure
The recent fuel disruptions show the danger in the government s long war on oil pipelines.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
There was no fuel.
“I can’t believe that we’re here and can’t even get gas,” Phillips told a local TV station. “People are tired of sitting in the house and they just want to get out and try to resume something of normality with their life and they’re definitely going to need fuel and gas to do that.”
Phillips was just one of thousands of people who saw their travel plans disrupted in the wake of a cyberattack on Friday targeting the Colonial Pipeline, a vital network of pipelines that run some 5,500 miles from the US Gulf Coast to New York Harbor.
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How a major oil pipeline fell victim to a cyber attack
11 May, 2021 05:25 AM
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Colonial Pipeline transports more than 2.5 million barrels of fuel every day. Photo / AP
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By: Matthew Field and James Cook for the Telegraph
It took just two hours for cyber criminals to steal almost 100 gigabytes of data from one of the biggest energy pipelines in the US. On Friday, a shadowy criminal gang, known as Darkside, was able to use that data to lock the computers of the Colonial pipeline, halting the movement of nearly half of the US east coast s fuel supply.
Officials are still scrambling to fully restart operations at Colonial, which transports 2.5m barrels per day of gasoline and other fuels through 5,500 miles (8,850km) of pipelines linking refiners on the Gulf Coast to the eastern and southern US.
The incident has drawn attention to how vulnerable US energy infrastructure is to hackers
A prolonged shutdown of the line would cause prices to spike at gasoline pumps
New York: Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline shut its entire network, the source of nearly half of the U.S. East Coast`s fuel supply, after a cyber attack on Friday (May 7) that involved ransomware.
The incident is one of the most disruptive digital ransom operations ever reported and has drawn attention to how vulnerable US energy infrastructure is to hackers. A prolonged shutdown of the line would cause prices to spike at gasoline pumps ahead of peak summer driving season, a potential blow to U.S. consumers and the economy.
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