A top U.S government official said Thursday it is increasingly likely the federal government will be faced with a "catastrophic cyber incident" larger in scope than the recent Colonial Pipeline hack.
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Mr. Wales, the head of CISA since November, made the comments during an online forum that was organized by the George Washington University School of Media & Public Affairs and the Howard Baker Forum.
Colonial Pipeline, a major fuel supplier for the eastern U.S., announced hours later that it had restarted its entire pipeline system after a ransomware attack caused it to shut down six days earlier.
Mr. Wales called the Colonial Pipeline hack “certainly a significant incident,” but he was reluctant to say it qualified to be called what he would consider being a “catastrophic cyber incident.”
“An attack on a single site, even if we were asked to provide incident response assistance to that entity, would not likely overwhelm our ability to provide that kind of support,” said Mr. Wales.