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Colonial Pipeline gave in: $5,000,000 paid to ransomware hackers
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:05 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:05 am
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Colonial Pipeline paid the hackers who shut down some of its networks nearly $5 million in ransom, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said Thursday.
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Colonial, which operates the country’s largest fuel pipeline, announced it had been hacked Friday, and shut down all four of its major pipelines that serve the Eastern and Southeastern United States as a precaution. Gas prices rose, and some stations ran out of fuel. The Department of Transportation issued an emergency order allowing truckers driving fuel in affected states to work longer hours than federal regulations normally allow.
A third-party consulting company that now handles Colonial’s press inquiries declined to comment on the payment.
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The FBI has historically discouraged, but not prohibited, American ransomware victims from paying hackers, as a payment isn’t guaranteed to work and can encourage criminals to continue attacking others. In a press conference Monday, Anne Neuberger, the White House’s deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, acknowledged that some organizations might find paying the criminals off can be in their best interest.
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:06 am to 0x15E
I thought we had the FBI to handle shite like this?
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:06 am to 0x15E
Cowards
How did they guarantee the hackers weren't pulling a Nigerian prince scheme and would fix the code after payment?
How did they guarantee the hackers weren't pulling a Nigerian prince scheme and would fix the code after payment?
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 9:28 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:07 am to 0x15E
blow up the us government and start from scratch if we cant even handle a situation like this
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:08 am to 0x15E
Not only that, but they paid them in Bitcoin which makes it that much harder to investigate/trace.
I suspect hackers/scammers/other ne'er do wells across the globe are dancing a little jig today.
I suspect hackers/scammers/other ne'er do wells across the globe are dancing a little jig today.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:08 am to 0x15E
fricking moron Biden won’t even sniff (see what I did there?) this case. “Private sector issue”
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:09 am to 0x15E
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Colonial Pipeline gave in: $5,000,000 paid to ransomware hackers
Im not saying they should have, but that's like me pulling a $5 bill out of my wallet
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:10 am to 0x15E
A lot, maybe half, of ransomware victims pay the ransom.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:10 am to 0x15E
Time for a little old school CIA rub out action.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:12 am to 0x15E
There has been no less than a dozen threads on this in the last 12 hours.
WE KNOW
WE KNOW
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:16 am to 0x15E
without bitcoin/crypto, this probably wouldn't have happened
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 9:17 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:17 am to 0x15E
quote:and this is exactly why this will continue to happen
Colonial Pipeline gave in: $5,000,000 paid to ransomware hackers
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:17 am to 0x15E
Most big companies are insured for being hacked. Whoever insured them paid it.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:18 am to 0x15E
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Colonial Pipeline gave in: $5,000,000 paid to ransomware hackers
Didn't they do this last week? I read that the encryption the hackers gave them was taking too long so they had to move forward with restoring their backups anyway.
Just a total waste of $5M.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:19 am to 0x15E
Biden gas signaled to Russia and China that it is open season to hack infrastructure in the USA>
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:34 am to 0x15E
That should be motivation enough to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:38 am to 0x15E
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Anne Neuberger, the White House’s deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, acknowledged that some organizations might find paying the criminals off can be in their best interest.
What a bunch of fricking clowns.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:51 am to 0x15E
I'm guessing their CIO is looking for a different career now.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:52 am to 0x15E
Are you fricking kidding me? So I guess this shite will become the norm now that the world knows we’ll pay.
We are living in a country run by pussy arse children.
We are living in a country run by pussy arse children.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 10:00 am to 0x15E
Aren’t we glad they took action to get back up quicker?
Years ago we were the victim of ransom ware. We paid them $400 in Bitcoin and they gave us the program to reverse the renaming of the files they had hacked. Hated to pay it but we would have been out of business for weeks had we not.
We now have at least two backups of our server all the time.
Years ago we were the victim of ransom ware. We paid them $400 in Bitcoin and they gave us the program to reverse the renaming of the files they had hacked. Hated to pay it but we would have been out of business for weeks had we not.
We now have at least two backups of our server all the time.
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 10:02 am
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