Event description

Following a cyberattack, one of the largest oil and gas companies in State F has temporarily reduced its supply of liquefied natural gas to the market.

The intruders gained access to the automated control system of the air cooling unit and disabled the drives, leaving the unit unable to release excess heat into the atmosphere. While the operator was figuring out the cause of the malfunction, the temperature inside the compressor unit soared to a critical level, resulting in an emergency shutdown of the compressor.

The liquefied natural gas plant is now closed for unscheduled maintenance, and the company is facing significant losses due to the downtime.

Consequences

1. Enterprise disruptions and downtime
2. Financial damage

This has happened before

The Record

Russian hacktivist threat on Canada's pipelines is "call to action," top cyber official says

A cybersecurity incident affecting a Canadian gas pipeline was revealed in a trove of leaked U.S. intelligence materials that included an apparently intercepted conversation between a hacking group known as Zarya and an officer at Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). According to the document, marked Top Secret, during this conversation the hackers claimed they could "increase valve pressure, disable alarms, and initiate an emergency shutdown of an unspecified gas distribution station" located in Canada.