4 Impacts of the April Data Breach of US Pipelines.

Date of cyber attack: April 2, 2018

What part of a pipeline system was attcked? an Electronic Data Interchange for the pipeline system

What impact did the hack have on the piepline?

  • The interchange was handled by a 3rd party
  • allegations that the system was shutdown, with no known impact on the natural gas flow
  • later in the evening, it was  safe to transfer files through the EDI platform
  • no data or operations were affected by the attack

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