percysunshine
Diamond Member
So it was actually a hostage situation...and good IT policy....
"Colonial Pipeline was hit with a ransomware attack. Bloomberg reported the hackers began their attack on May 6 by stealing about 100 gigabytes of data in a double extortion scheme that holds the data hostage and threatens to leak it. The company shut some of its operations to prevent the malicious software from spreading."
"Colonial Pipeline was hit with a ransomware attack. Bloomberg reported the hackers began their attack on May 6 by stealing about 100 gigabytes of data in a double extortion scheme that holds the data hostage and threatens to leak it. The company shut some of its operations to prevent the malicious software from spreading."
Colonial Pipeline CEO tells Senate decision to pay hackers was made quickly
The company paid $4.4 million the day after the hack was discovered.
www.cnet.com