Criminal gang believed behind cyberattack on Colonial pipeline

  • May 10, 2021

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo traffic on I-95 passes oil storage tanks owned by the Colonial Pipeline Company in Linden, N.J. A major pipeline that transports fuels along the East Coast says it had to stop operations because it was the victim of a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline 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 of our IT systems.” (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

 

It wasn’t just any cyberattack that forced the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline which carries gasoline and other fuel from Texas to the Northeast.

Turns out, according to law enforcement officials the attack was carried out by the DarkSide criminal gang, one known as something of a Robin Hood group that reportedly takes from the rich, i.e. the corporations and gives some of it, not all of it mind you, to charity.

The Associated Press reported the pipeline delivers nearly 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast.

Click here for Associated Press story.

Jerry Bohnen