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Gas Company Virus Infection

Event Year
2012
Reliability
Confirmed
Industry
Petroleum

Description

An error message was found on a local operator panel.  After an unsuccessful reboot, antivirus software was installed.  An investigation revealed that the Local operator panel was potentially infected with a virus via a USB flash drive.

Impact

A gas company computer was infected with a virus via a USB flash drive.