Demented Joe paid, not Colonial. Book it.
Well, this will certainly stop anyone else from doing anymore hacking. Take that!
Now our gov needs to track down the hackers and eliminate them.
“We’re sorry, didn’t mean to cause problems. Pay us $5 million and we’ll fix it.”
Which government organization did this to Colonial? CIA? NSA? FBI (Stasi)? DoD? Or, which one of the government organizations put out a contract on Colonial so they didn’t have to do it directly?
Disappointing!!!
What was Biden’s cut of the $5 million?
“This contradicts reports from earlier this week that the company had no plans of paying a fee”
Not a contradiction: They simply paid it without planning to. Any lawyer would say that.
How can they not recover from backups and was the SCADA equipment somehow infected? If so, why are valves and pumps seemingly running on Windows?
They paid $5 million? I guess that’s okay, as long as the hackers don’t do it again.
I kid, of course. What you subsidize you will get more of.
That money probably went to the democrat Party.
Our vaunted FBI can track down any number of poor folks who were in Washington on January 6th and ruin their lives but they can’t find these clowns????
It is irresponsible to not have clean back-up software AND manual override!
The Mossad could find the hackers and eliminate them. The U.S.—uh, after they found pantyhose they liked, got their hormone shots, batted their fake eyelashes at each other, might get a whiff of the trail.
Imagine what China or another of our enemies could do.
Sustainable Energy takes a beating:
1. Elon Musk realizes that alternative currency is a huge carbon emitter.
2. Our carbon rich pipeline infrastructure must pay off the Ivans and Sergeys of the world, or our nation ceases to function.
Both were avoidable errors.
Somehow, somewhere, we need to find some young cyber-hunters who can follow these crooks back through the wires and out them for the “regular” LEO’s to deal with on a physical level.
Bet it was a lot more than 5 mil....