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One password allowed hackers to disrupt Colonial Pipeline, CEO tells senators

By Stephanie Kelly and Jessica Resnick-Ault

Jun 9 2021 5:52AM

"Not a Colonial123-type password."

One password allowed hackers to disrupt Colonial Pipeline, CEO tells senators

The head of Colonial Pipeline told US senators that hackers who launched last month's cyber attack against the company and disrupted fuel supplies to the US Southeast were able to get into the system by stealing a single password. Colonial Pipeline Chief Executive Joseph Blount told a US ...

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