The US is currently experiencing fuel scarcity and people are engaging in panic buying. The scarcity is due to shutdown of the largest U.S. fuel pipeline by hackers, last Friday.

What happened? Colonial Pipeline was hit with a ransomware attack. Bloomberg reported that the hackers began their attack on Thursday by stealing about 100 gigabytes of data as part of a double-extortion scheme.

The hack forced Colonial Pipeline to halt operations in what it termed an "abundance of caution." The company said the ransomware attack targeted its infotech systems. White House officials said on Monday that the pipeline itsef did not appear to suffer any damage.

The FBI also said on Monday that the culprit of the hack is a strain of ransomware called DarkSide, believed to be operated by a Russian cybercrime gang of the same name. President Joe Biden said Monday there was no evidence the Russian government was involved in the hack.

While the impact remains to be quantified, the pipeline shutdown will reduce fuel availability in the near term, push up prices and force refiners to cut production because they have no way to ship the gas. The shutdown has affected supply of gas in parts of the East Coast, with some people waiting an hour or more at filling stations.

Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of the fuel supplies for the eastern USA, said in a statement late Friday that it took “certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations and affected some IT systems.”

The pipeline is 5,500 miles long and carries jet fuel and refined gasoline from the Gulf Coast to New York, according to the Times, transporting some 2.5 million barrels daily.

SOURCES: Various

ND boys should go and learn hacking and stop using bombs. That shît causes pollution.

The Nigerian Way.

Hmmmn

The difference...
Software attack.... pipeline explosion...

Niger deltans, una dey see? But Nigerian system is purely analogue

Biden na just another version of Buhari in white skin...so so bad news and badluck since he took over..
I don't want to talk about their health situations and avoidance of press