{"id":2167,"date":"2021-05-14T01:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T01:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2021-05-14T01:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T01:46:56","slug":"ransomware-and-the-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/ransomware-and-the-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware and the Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Ransomware hackers took over the Colonial Pipeline which led to gas station shortages in the Southeast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? The pipeline owner paid $5 million in ransom to get gas flowing again. The lingering question is whether by paying the ransomware will other bad actors feel empowered?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? Not the first, won&#8217;t be the last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/13\/us\/politics\/biden-colonial-pipeline-ransomware.html\">NY Times | Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5 Million in Ransom to Hackers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Ransomware hackers took over the Colonial Pipeline which led to gas station shortages in the Southeast Why is this important? The pipeline owner paid $5 million in ransom to get gas flowing again. The lingering question is whether by paying the ransomware will other bad actors feel empowered? How will this be important? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}