Was the $5 million paid in tax dollars thanks to Biden?.
too cheap, i dont believe it
MSN?
Not credible.................
How much did “The Big Guy” get?
Well, there you have it. Was it worth it, long term? Short term it gets their operations going again. Long term, will this simply encourage more ransom demands?
This should be a wake up call about cyber security.
And maybe changes should be made in how some businesses operate. Clearly, the operations of this pipeline should not be on the internet.
I don’t know the answer, if some sort of closed network is needed, or maybe more human beings need to be employed to do some work which has been automated over the years.
As others have pointed out, this pipeline was built long before the internet was invented, and operated for decades without internet connections.
We’re going to find out exactly how “anonymous” a public ledger is or isn’t.
Colonial Colonial customers and U.S. taxpayers paid hackers almost $5M in ransom: report
Stupid, stupid, stupid........
I sure hope they upgrade their security or they will be paying ransoms into bankruptcy..
Why aren’t we bombing the hell out of these people?
Almost certainly the least expensive route out.
No surprise that the ransom was paid. Everyone would have been dancing and celebrating if they had reopened the pipeline without paying the extortion.
That money should have been spent on a backup system!
Geez... I have a backup and protection against virus, spyware and ransomware on my pc.
You don’t kiss and tell and you don’t pay a ransom and tell... for the same reason... You become an easy mark. Just shut up.
Well now we see how the company was able to get the pipeline going again in a matter of days.
Well, luckily that won’t function as an incentive for other criminals... /s
Well, luckily ‘giving the bully your lunch money’ won’t function as an incentive for other criminals... /s
(In a war situation - or an attack by a revenge culture like Iran - there wouldn’t be anyone to pay... pipelines would be down - and stay down. That would be worse.
It’s why infrastructure spending can’t be spent on 4 year olds getting free daycare...)
So the line is running again ... until the hackers attack again
... now knowing that the company will pay!!
(some idiots need to be fired)
Next it’s going to be the electrical grid.
Trump ordered that no Chinese software or hardware be in the grid. One of the first things Biden did was to rescind that order.
Wait till the electricity goes out and you’ll see all those abandoned Teslas on the side of the road. The woke will get whacked!
Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the company paid in untraceable cryptocurrency within hours after the attack. After the hackers received the payment, they provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its computer network.
1. If this happened "within hours" then this shutdown wasn't not necessary...UNLESS Colonial feared there was potentially more cyber damage and took the whole thing offline to do a bare-metal restore.
2. Bloomberg would NEVER lie. /s
3. About $5MM is plausible but sounds cheap.
4. The intent of this story if untrue is to gin-up demands to nationalize pipelines. Sure, Colonial may have misstepped, but do you REALLY want Leviathan, with staff holding g a DMV-like work ethic and skills below that of q-tip, running pipelines?
I'm calling BS.