Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
by dragontamer on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:33PM
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What data needs to be confidential in the case of the Colonial Pipeline?
I'm sure that there's proprietary data. Maybe knowing how much oil / gasoline is flowing might allow some traders to make unfairly informed trades (or maybe not: only inside trading is illegal. If someone figures out the information some other way, its not illegal IIRC).
And maybe employee data should be kept private, but there's no HIPPA requirement on that. Its not like there's payment processors on this thing either, so no PCI compliance here.
So I'm not exactly seeing why backing up data would be an issue in this case.
I'm sure that there's proprietary data. Maybe knowing how much oil / gasoline is flowing might allow some traders to make unfairly informed trades (or maybe not: only inside trading is illegal. If someone figures out the information some other way, its not illegal IIRC).
And maybe employee data should be kept private, but there's no HIPPA requirement on that. Its not like there's payment processors on this thing either, so no PCI compliance here.
So I'm not exactly seeing why backing up data would be an issue in this case.