Well, that's good news but too bad Colonial paid off the ransom. This will set a dangerous precedent. Schools have been attacked and hospitals in the past and yep, they usually ended up paying the ransom. I've been concerned off and on about these hackers finally breaking through the banks and investment houses.
Recently, I got an email saying I was being hacked and to pay off the ransom but the thing is, I still had complete access to my computer! Did a google search and it's a scam trying to get you to pay the ransom when there's nothing wrong with your computer. I checked all three of my credit reports and they're fine.
https://gothamist.com/news/local-gas...a1838-91331958
No need to panic over gas availability, especially in New York and New Jersey, experts say.
The region’s supplies of gasoline remain strong, even as gas stations in other parts of the country experience panic buying and temporary shortages in light of the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, the country’s largest fuel pipeline which sends oil from Houston, Texas to Linden, New Jersey.
Colonial Pipeline’s company admitted to paying the nearly $5 million ransom in cryptocurrency Friday to the Eastern European hackers who took down the pipeline’s computer systems, Bloomberg News reported: “The hackers, which the FBI said are linked to a group called DarkSide, specialize in digital extortion and are believed to be located in Russia or Eastern Europe.”
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