Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack

When

7 May 2021

Kind

Event

Coordinates

29.76° N, 95.38° W

Placed at the town its text puts it in, Houston.

Colonial Pipeline cyberattack: An oil pipeline in Houston is hacked by DarkSide causing the pipeline operator to shut down its entire network, the source of nearly half of the U.S. East Coast's fuel supply.

Ransomware attack on American oil pipeline system

On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline, an American oil pipeline system that originates in Houston, Texas, and carries gasoline and jet fuel mainly to the Southeastern United States, suffered a ransomware cyberattack that afflicted computerized equipment managing the pipeline. The Colonial Pipeline Company halted all pipeline operations to contain the attack.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “美聯社報導，美國最大燃油管線營運業者「殖民管線公司」（Colonial Pipeline）輸送美國東岸各地使用的約45%燃料”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page