Top US Oilfield Firm Halliburton Hit By Cyberattack, Source Says

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. oilfield services firm Halliburton on Wednesday was hit by a cyberattack, according to a person familiar with the matter. Halliburton said it was aware of an issue affecting certain systems at the company and was working to determine the cause and impact of the problem. The company was also working with "leading external experts" to fix the issue, a spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

The attack appeared to impact business operations at the company's north Houston campus, as well as some global connectivity networks, the person said, who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the record. The company has asked some staff not to connect to internal networks, the person said. Houston, Texas-based Halliburton is one of the largest oilfield services firms in the world, providing drilling services and equipment to major energy producers around the globe. It had nearly 48,000 employees and operated in more than 70 countries at the end of last year.

I'm so sad

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

My heart bleeds for Halliburton. If hackers won't even leave honest war-profiteers in peace, in what world do we live in...

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[geekmux]

My heart bleeds for Halliburton. If hackers won't even leave honest war-profiteers in peace, in what world do we live in...

I thought they made briefcases. The fuck are they made out of? Recycled WWII tank turrets?

You DO realize who'll pay for this, right?

[mmell]

While your heart is bleeding for Haliburton, perhaps a bit of that blood can be let slip for we consumers who will pay to clean up this mess (what, you thought Haliburton would just eat the loss because it's their systems that were compromised)? Sorry to ruin your fun, but Haliburton will only feel a momentary discomfort from this, but our collective pain will just go on and on and on . . . gee, maybe we as a society should never have enabled guys like Haliburton by choosing to turn the US into the Arsenal

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[Local ID10T]

Finally we will see a kinetic response to these terrorists.

They fucked with our water supplies, they fucked with our hospitals... but touch our precious OIL PROFITS and you are gonna get some Operation Freedom coming your way.

This warms the cots of my wolds.

[Pseudonymous Powers]

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What goes around...

[denelson83]

Comes around.

Boy, isn't poetic justice satisfying?

Bonuses all around!

[VeryFluffyBunny]

The c-suite executives will be giving generous bonuses to themselves for how they handle this dire emergency, whatever the final outcome will be. Welcome to the corporate world, where war is peace, ignorance is strength, & freedom is slavery. Doubleplusgood!

Free LifeLock!

[gavron]

Dear Customer,

We COULD secure your data but that costs money. We didn't and that makes our shareholders happy.
Sorry your private information was exfiltrated.

Here's a year of free LifeLock.

Give us more data to give away. If we get hacked we'll give you more uselsss LifeLock.

Every-company-hacked-in-the-last-five-years

Top US War Firm Halliburton

[Mirnotoriety]

Mar 2005: Oh what a lovely war on terror it's been for Halliburton [independent.co.uk]

Always heartwarming ...

[cascadingstylesheet]

... to hear that "crime is good, as long as we don't like the target."

Cheney for prison 2024

[sinkskinkshrieks]

After all, he is even worse than Henry Kissinger paving the way for the Khmer Rouge because he lied and manipulated people to start a war that cost a million lives and waste $2 trillion of US taxpayer money to engineer profits of $400 million for Halliburton.

Hacktivism Can Bring Comeuppance!

[erasmix]

These people are EVIL. Do not be sorry for them, do not wish them well!

source found

[groobly]

The source of the leak was found to be inside the DNC in Chicago, but investigators are still trying to determine which faction was responsible.