http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/business/global/saudi-aramco-says-hackers-took-aim-at-its-production.html
By REUTERS
December 9, 2012
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, Aramco,
said on Sunday that a cyberattack against it in August that damaged some
30,000 computers was aimed at stopping oil and gas production in Saudi
Arabia, the biggest exporter in the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries.
The attack on Saudi Aramco -- which supplies a tenth of the world’s oil
-- failed to disrupt production, but was one of the most destructive
hacker strikes against a single business.
“The main target in this attack was to stop the flow of oil and gas to
local and international markets and thank God they were not able to
achieve their goals,” Abdullah al-Saadan, Aramco’s vice president for
corporate planning, said on Al Ekhbariya television. It was Aramco’s
first comments on the apparent aim of the attack.
Hackers from a group called Cutting Sword of Justice claimed
responsibility for the attack, saying that their motives were political
and that the virus gave them access to documents from Aramco’s
computers, which they threatened to release. No documents have yet been
published.
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