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"Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline

by Tyler Durden
Monday, May 10, 2021 - 09:09 PM

Gas shortages are being reported in the Southeast of the US amid the recent cybersecurity attack that temporarily shut down one of the largest pipelines in the US.

Colonial Pipeline Co. Chief Executive Officer Joseph Blount said the company was in the process of restoring its systems but wouldn't resume fuel shipments until the ransomware had been removed, according to Bloomberg.



At the moment, Colonial Pipeline is manually operating a segment of pipeline between North Carolina to Maryland and expects a complete system restore by the weekend. However, gas shortages are already being reported across North Carolina to Florida to Alabama.

On Monday, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed an Executive Order declaring a state of emergency, temporarily suspending motor vehicle fuel regulations to ensure adequate fuel supply supplies throughout the state.

WLOS' Caitlyn Penter reported gas shortages in North Carolina.

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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2021, 02:17:06 am »
Why is something like this even connected to the Internet???

And if it has to be - which is highly debatable - lock it down so it can't be hacked. For it to be hacked implies incompetence of the pipeline operator.

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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2021, 02:44:16 am »
Why is something like this even connected to the Internet???

Because upper management wants the ability to see what's going on.
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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2021, 02:52:58 am »
Because upper management wants the ability to see what's going on.

There are other ways to do that.

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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2021, 02:57:40 am »
There are other ways to do that.

Yep.  But that would require them to do actual work.
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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2021, 03:04:22 am »
Filled up the gas tanks for the lawnmowers and two cars today, it was a madhouse at the gas stations.

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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2021, 03:29:10 am »
No problem for me getting gas in North Fulton County, GA.  But I will use the crisis as an excuse not to cut my grass.
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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2021, 04:05:54 am »
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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2021, 01:08:04 pm »
Yep.  But that would require them to do actual work.

Much changed in the late '90's and early '00's to convert plants (and pipelines for that matter) to advanced computer controls for manpower reduction.  Back then these were based on internal controls, but I do remember at the end, the push to network these processes for remote access and operation.

it's always been said technology is a two edged sword.   
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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2021, 10:45:26 pm »
catfish wrote:
"Much changed in the late '90's and early '00's to convert plants (and pipelines for that matter) to advanced computer controls for manpower reduction.  Back then these were based on internal controls, but I do remember at the end, the push to network these processes for remote access and operation."

It's gone like that on the railroads, too.

After Metro-North closed all the towers on the New Haven line and moved to digital controls from a single location (2nd floor Grand Central), if the "computers went down", the whole railroad signal system would "go dark", and the trains would stop. Doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

Not like "the old days" when the towers were "islands unto themselves" and the blocks in between were automatic with signal power supplied by batteries. Trains could keep running at almost all times, and did. The New Haven line was still up-and-running even during the great blackout of 1965, because the railroad had its own power generating station for overhead and signal power...

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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2021, 01:19:43 am »
Smart of Biden, to prepare us early on for what he has in store for us when all oil and gas is forbidden.

It will work, as people know now what to expect from him.
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Re: "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2021, 01:34:44 am »
It is the ass wipe paper run 2021.   People are so stupid.   
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