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What The Pipeline Oil Ransomware Attack TAUGHT Us

Assurance IT

With a 5,500-mile-long pipeline that travels over 100 million gallons of gasoline from state to state, it instantly closed due to the impact of the attack. Reports are claiming that the DarkSide ransomware group is responsible for the attack. On May 7th, 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the USA was rocked by a major ransomware attack.