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

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

"Not a Colonial123-type password."

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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