Fail!-----Emergency Declaration Issued For 17 States Over Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack | Dan Bongino

Emergency Declaration Issued For 17 States Over Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack | Dan Bongino
"The Colonial Pipeline, which runs 5,500 miles and supplies almost half the gas, diesel, and jet fuel for the East Coast was hit with a successful ransomware attack. 

That means that the hackers got access to the files, prevented Colonial Pipeline from being to get their own data, and offered to allow them access again for a fee. 

Of course, you can’t trust a criminal in a situation like that, so even paying the fee wouldn’t guarantee that the problem would go away.
In this case, it’s a particularly large problem. 

That’s why the U.S. Department of Transportation has issued an emergency declaration for all the states that could potentially be impacted by this along with DC. 

...Will this lead to a significant increase in the cost of gas in those states? 

...The cyber division of the Department of Homeland Security believes a group based out of Russia called DarkSide is believed to be responsible. 

Previously, that group has hit an Office Depot subsidiary called CompuCom and a division of Enterprise Rent-a-Car...Read all.