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Three years ago, the world witnessed the worst information security breach, the likes of which it had never seen before. Since then, the details of this cyber attack against Saudi Aramco, one of the largest oil companies in the world, have not been revealed, and until recently no one knew except A little about this attack.
Recently, the former information security advisor to Saudi Aramco, Chris Kubica (after the hack), spoke to CNN Money about her experience during a presentation she gave at a conference called Black Hat Electronic Hacking in Las Vega in the United States of America.
Kubica talked about the hack, saying: Within hours, more than 35,000 electronic computers crashed, with data partially lost or completely destroyed.

Thus, the company had no way to receive payment for them, and there were many gasoline tanks that required refilling in order to distribute them, whether for foreign or local shipping. Aramco has the ability to supply 10% of the world’s oil, and suddenly it was in danger, to repel this ferocious electronic attack. One of the most valuable companies on Earth went back to using 1970s technology through the use of typewriters and faxes.
Kubica recalled her memories of the hacking incident, saying: The story began in mid-2012, when one of the company’s employees was deceived by opening a “scam” message and clicking on a bad link, which allowed hackers to infiltrate the company’s devices.
She added: The actual attack on the company's devices began during the holy month of Ramadan when most of Saudi Aramco's employees were on vacation, and on the morning of Wednesday, August 15, 2012, a small number of the company's employees noticed that their computers were exhibiting strange behavior and the devices' screens began to fail. Then some files began to disappear, while some devices turned off without any reason or explanation.

Kubica adds: The next morning, a group calling itself “Cutting the Sword of Justice” claimed responsibility for the attack, and then the company became offline and outside global trade systems.
Kubica stated that during the height of the attack, some Aramco computer technicians removed cables from behind the Internet server computers in all of the company’s centers around the world, in a step to prevent the virus from spreading.
Kubica explained that in the meantime, oil production remained stable at 9.5 million barrels per day, according to company records according to cnnmoney, as drilling and pumping continued to work automatically, but the rest of the work was in a state of turmoil, as managing supplies, shipping, and contracts with governments and commercial partners was all forced to work by road. Primitive on paper.
Without the Internet in the office, there is no email or phones, and employees write their reports on typewriters.

Sending correspondence via fax, the company temporarily stopped selling oil to tank trucks.
Kubica stated that Aramco demonstrated its strength, as it sent its representatives directly to computer factories in Southeast Asia to purchase hard disks for computers during the manufacturing line, where it bought 50 thousand hard disks in one sentence, in addition to that its purchase of hard disks from the production line came at a higher price in order to limit From her access to anyone in the world except her.
Kubica said that all those who purchased computers or hard drives during the period between September 2012 and January 2013 had to pay a price slightly higher than the real value, and after 5 months, Aramco was able to completely modernize its Internet network and increase its information security team. .