{"id":5491,"date":"2021-06-29T20:48:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2021-06-29T20:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:48:55","slug":"how-a-major-oil-pipeline-got-held-for-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5491","title":{"rendered":"How a major oil pipeline got held for ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/05\/12\/gas-shortage-colonial-pipeline-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reports<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-05-13\/colonial-pipeline-paid-hackers-nearly-5-million-in-ransom?sref=Wg6QzS2e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">varied<\/a>&nbsp;on whether Colonial paid the ransom or not until May 19, when Colonial acknowledged that it did indeed pay $4.4 million worth of bitcoin (which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2021\/5\/18\/22441831\/elon-musk-bitcoin-dogecoin-crypto-prices-tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">may not be worth<\/a>&nbsp;$4.4 million anymore). CEO Joseph Blount&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/colonial-pipeline-ceo-tells-why-he-paid-hackers-a-4-4-million-ransom-11621435636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the Wall Street Journal<\/a>&nbsp;that it was a difficult decision, but one that he felt was \u201cthe right thing to do for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blount added that it will cost Colonial far more \u2014 tens of millions of dollars \u2014 to completely restore its systems over the next several months.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22428774\/ransomeware-pipeline-colonial-darkside-gas-prices\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22428774\/ransomeware-pipeline-colonial-darkside-gas-prices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Reports varied on whether Colonial paid the ransom or not until May 19, when Colonial acknowledged that it did indeed pay $4.4 million worth of bitcoin (which may not be worth $4.4 million anymore). CEO Joseph Blount told the Wall Street Journal that it was a difficult decision, but one that he felt was \u201cthe right thing to do for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blount added that it will cost Colonial far more \u2014 tens of millions of dollars \u2014 to completely restore its systems over the next several months.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[456,457],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-hacking","tag-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}