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Colonial Pipeline executives reportedly paid hackers nearly $5 Million in ransom money
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:42 am
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:42 am
Bloomberg News
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Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country’s largest fuel pipeline, according to two people familiar with the transaction.
The company paid the hefty ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency within hours after the attack, underscoring the immense pressure faced by the Georgia-based operator to get gasoline and jet fuel flowing again to major cities along the Eastern Seaboard, those people said.
Once they received the payment, the hackers provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network. The tool was so slow that the company continued using its own backups to help restore the system, one of the people familiar with the company’s efforts said.
A representative from Colonial declined to comment.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:43 am to RollTide1987
That just emboldens them to do more. I wonder what their next large target will be.
This post was edited on 5/13/21 at 9:44 am
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:43 am to RollTide1987
Do they want to guarantee more hacks in the future?
Because this is how you guarantee more hacks in the future.
Because this is how you guarantee more hacks in the future.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:43 am to RollTide1987
That will certainly not encourage this to continue.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:45 am to RollTide1987
Paying the Danegeld never works
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:45 am to Ace Midnight
hell i would have taken that 5mil and posted online that 5million will go to whoever finds this group and gets their information back and out who did this.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:47 am to RollTide1987
the 5 million ensures that when they are caught, they get a life sentence in jail
so there is that!!!!
so there is that!!!!
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:47 am to CarRamrod
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hell i would have taken that 5mil and posted online that 5million will go to whoever finds this group and gets their information back and out who did this.
Worked for Mel Gibson
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:48 am to ApexTiger
They may be criminals, but the Russians wouldn’t let us touch them.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:49 am to RollTide1987
The need to be paid via drone. Weak America will guarantee more attacks.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:50 am to RollTide1987
That would be typical with sniveling coward buttfrick loser un-American Democrats. Did they make sure that the person who paid the hackers represented the diversity and inclusion that Colonial Pipeline stands for now?
But hey!! Surely if they did this, they have secured peace in our time! Celebrate everybody! Have a slice of appeasement pie! Poland, you’re on your own.......
But hey!! Surely if they did this, they have secured peace in our time! Celebrate everybody! Have a slice of appeasement pie! Poland, you’re on your own.......
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:52 am to RollTide1987
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$5 million
Not a bad few days work for the Biden family
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:52 am to RollTide1987
5M they could have spent on technology, process and people. In my experience, companies don't want to spend money on CS. This was preventable.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:52 am to RollTide1987
Paying the hackers is never the right move. It never works out.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:55 am to RollTide1987
Trump's boys got paid!
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:58 am to jptiger2009
TDS still has you bitches being bitches. Sad.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:59 am to RollTide1987
The FBI needs to send in that group of crack specialists who investigated the Bubba Wallace noose incident and get to the bottom of this.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 10:00 am to RollTide1987
Once mushbrain took office, we were fricked
Posted on 5/13/21 at 10:00 am to CarRamrod
I would put up another 5mil to have the hackers rubbed out
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