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Saudi says cyber attack aimed to halt oil flow
- Saudi Arabia: Monday, December 10 - 2012 at 04:43
Saudi Aramco said yesterday that a cyber attack against it in August which damaged some 30,000 computers was aimed at stopping oil and gas production in the kingdom, Reuters has reported. The attack on the company - which supplies a tenth of the world's oil - failed to disrupt production, but was one of the most destructive cyber strikes conducted against a single business. "The main target in this attack was to stop the flow of oil and gas to local and international markets and thank God they were not able to achieve their goals," said Abdullah al-Saadan, Aramco's vice president for corporate planning, on al-Ekhbariya television. It was the firm's first comments on the apparent aim of the attack.
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