The Colonial Pipeline Hack
This year’s hack of one of the biggest pipelines in the U.S. has all the makings of a great cyber-comedy/thriller. (Yes, this is a new genre we just made up.) The hack shut down the pipeline for six days and sparked a gasoline shortage along the East Coast. It carried out by a hacker or hackers who demanded a ransom in bitcoin. And the pipeline’s security system was so easy to breach, one expert described it as readily hackable by someone “working at an eighth-grade level.” The fact that the hack happened to a company that was in the middle of cleaning up the largest gasoline spill in decades only adds dramatic (and absurd) icing to the cake.
