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then send Colonial Pipeline
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Assessment
The communications team
ce the attack to news organi-
zations. All departments
.
c can still function and which
cannot. Colonial Pipeline
employees engage with law
enforcement, government
agencies involved with the
energy industry, and clients
and customers suddenly cut
off from gasoline supplies.
The shutdown causes major
s st offline. Everyone’s job –
from billing to administra-
tion to communications
be .
c ou they are supposed to do
without fully functioning
computer networks. The
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Pipeline crisis and response
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cr 4:45 A.M. An employee at
Colonial Pipeline discovers
stem
i or says that hackers have taken
files from the company’s data
and m li for the files.
5:55 A.M. The company de-
cides to shut down the entire
pipeline network to contain
ic harm or damage.
n pipeline shutdown, systems
throughout the company go
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