First Posted: May 12, 2021 11:59 PM EDT President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday, aiming to strengthen the nation's cyber defenses following the Colonial Pipeline hack that prompted panic buying to drivers on the East Coast, marking gas shortage 2021. NPR reported that the said company that was victimized by the hacking is responsible for providing nearly half of the gasoline and jet fuel on the eastern coast of the U.S. Biden's signing of the executive order that aims to reinforce the cyberdefenses comes more than two weeks after D.C. Metropolitan Police Department announced that their server was also hacked. The department claimed that there was unauthorized access on their servers. FBI is now investigating the hacking incident with their servers.