CNN's Sean Lyngaas back once again with a belter story: Iranian hackers are behind a series of breaches of systems that monitor the amount of fuel in storage tanks serving gas stations in multiple U.S. states.

[zackwhittaker@mastodon.social]

CNN's Sean Lyngaas back once again with a belter story: Iranian hackers are behind a series of breaches of systems that monitor the amount of fuel in storage tanks serving gas stations in multiple U.S. states.

Per Lyngaas: the hackers "exploited automatic tank gauge systems that were sitting online and unprotected by passwords."

A little louder for the folks in the back:

...."UNPROTECTED BY PASSWORDS."

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/politics/iran-hackers-tank-readers-gas-stations

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@zackwhittaker this of course is one of those things that the security community has been trying to get ANYONE to care about for years and years and years.

it's one of those ....... we don't want to tell people what they're feeling, but if that were an issue we'd personally worked on, we'd be so deeply sad to have been right.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@tully @zackwhittaker no doubt

[threatresearch@infosec.exchange]

@zackwhittaker

"The hacking campaign is also a warning to many US critical infrastructure operators who have struggled to secure their systems despite years of federal exhortations."

Feds: Put a password on it, pwetty pwease

Industry: no

[neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org]

@threatresearch @zackwhittaker

THE EXACT MANUFACTURERS AND MODELS. WE'VE KNOWN THEY'D TARGET THESE FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS.

FIVE YEARS.

Access Denied

(news.sky.com)

[csstrowbridge@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker

If it is unprotected, then it is not hacking.

[danni_storm@hachyderm.io]

@zackwhittaker No one answered at CISA because no one works there anymore. It was gutted because CISA was obviously an agent of the Biden administration to embarrass Trump. Or did Biden do that too...somehow after his term ended