Posted on 05/11/2021 4:02:19 PM PDT by conservative98
Gas stations from Florida to Virginia have closed their pumps and a state of emergency has been declared by the governor of North Carolina after Colonial Pipeline was forced to shut off the nation's biggest fuel pipeline when it was hacked.
The FBI has confirmed that DarkSide, a Russian hacking outfit made up of ransomware veterans, was responsible for the attack on Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Texas to New Jersey and transports 45 percent of the East Coast's fuel supply.
The 5,500 pipeline shut down five days ago and services are only gradually being restored now. Colonial, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, has not yet said whether it has already paid or is negotiating a ransom with the hackers.
Colonial said it was working to 'substantially' resume operations by the end of this week but reports of gas shortages are already emerging up and down the East Coast as motorists were spotted lining up in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia.
Meanwhile, at least 24 other companies across a range of industries were also reportedly affected by the ransomware attack and Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, called for military strikes to kill those involved in an 'act of war' against America.
The pipeline supplies nearly half of all the East Coast's fuel needs, including Atlanta's airport - the world's busiest, by passenger traffic. The pipeline also serves 90 U.S. military installations and 26 oil refineries.
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Ya think????
Procrastination on someone’s part.
Not mine.....
Our yard wasn’t that big, but I hear you about the rest.
Not a dumb question. IMO, if this company didn't have backups of any important systems, that was criminally negligent. Where I work, we have annual tests of disaster recovery tasks for each of our applications. We assume our western data center has slid into the pacific ocean, and execute our recovery on our central data center.
This isn't rocket science. There are known catastrophic risks out there. A competent IT department plans for that.
I’m not sure I’d blame the H1B’s. Remember that Colonial is governed by federal hiring rules as they do business with federal entities.
I’ll bet their staffing is required to follow federal hiring guidelines. No telling how many less qualified IT personal they have to hire to meet the required quotas.
Although we will never know how the breach happened, it ma have been as simple as some not so qualified person doing something a truly qualified IT person would know not to.
Remember prior to Trump’s Executive Order last year, there was no restrictions on using H1Bs in any federal contractor
That executive order was short-lived and blocked by an Obama Federal Judge…
Thanks, appreciate your informed reply!
It’s up another 8 cents today, after the 5 cent hike yesterday. In Pennsylvania.
Just saw something that Colonial paid the ransom, wonder how much they paid.
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