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Andy Meek
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The national average for gas prices in the US has just hit a record -- topping $3 per gallon as of mid-day Wednesday, a level not seen since the fall of 2014.
This comes as fuel shortages around the country are starting to worsen, as drivers race to fill up their tanks whether they need to or not following the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline over the weekend. As part of the attack, the Russian ransomware gang DarkSide stole about 100GB worth of data from the network of this major US fuel pipeline, then locked the network -- which led Colonial Pipeline to also take its operational network offline, even though it was only the IT network that was reportedly hit by the ransomware attack. Taking the pipeline offline was a big deal, because Colonial's network encompasses some 5,550 miles of pipeline and carries 45% of the fuel consumed by the US East Coast. All of which is to say, this ransomware attack was pretty devastating, so much so that no only has the DarkSide gang of Russian hackers sort of apologized for it, but Colonial Pipeline is also trying to recruit a new cybersecurity manager, to prevent situations exactly like this one.
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It looks like the Russians have embarrassed Colonial Pipeline into hiring more IT talent originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 12 May 2021 at 16:45:34 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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