I'm really in a hurry, but I also want a big crime, maybe something that almost shut

our entire country down, can I get that?

Welcome to True Crime to Go. I'm John here with Jamie. Man, that intro got me intrigued.

Good, I saw your eyes get big. Yeah, we're calling this the pipeline. This is a big one.

I really love digging into stories that are non-violent for True Crime to go. And while

this is non-violent, this is a big deal. All right, man. Well, guys, we've got a true

crime story in 10 minutes or less. Let's get going, guys.

That doesn't mean when I say it's non-violent that they're, that these crimes are victimless

or that they can't completely disrupt society because that's exactly what this did. In

2021, there was a major story in the United States where the colonial pipeline completely

shut down. Do you remember this?

I vaguely remember this. Yes.

Yeah, we get for some reason, even though we're along this route, it was not as impactful

where we live. But this was how the colonial pipelines, how gas and oil are transported

along the eastern half of the United States. For our international listeners, this was a

really major shutdown. Why did magazine call this incident one of the largest disruption

of American critical infrastructure by hackers in history?

So this all started on May 7 of 2021. A ransom note was discovered in the control room

of the colonial pipeline. The note demanded ransom money in the form of cryptocurrency

in exchange for decryption of the pipelines data. Now to put the shutdown in perspective

from Texas to New Jersey, around 5,500 miles, there was around 2.5 million barrels of

fuel daily that traveled along this pipeline. As an immediate response, the pipeline was

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