<span class="lead-in-text-callout"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19386" src="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Incident-21.06.08-2.png" alt="" width="800" height="512" />When ransomware hackers</span> hit Colonial Pipeline last month and shut off the distribution of gas along much of the East Coast of the United States, the world woke up to the danger of digital disruption of the petrochemical pipeline industry. Now it appears another pipeline-focused business was also hit by a ransomware crew around the same time, but kept its breach quiet—even as 70 gigabytes of its internal files were stolen and dumped onto the dark web. A group identifying itself as Xing Team last month posted to its dark web site a collection of files stolen from LineStar Integrity Services, a Houston-based company that sells auditing, compliance, maintenance, and technology services to pipeline customers. The data, first spotted online by the WikiLeaks-style transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoSecrets, includes 73,500 emails, accounting files, contracts, and other business documents, around 19 GB of software code and data, and 10 GB of human resources files that includes scans of employee driver's licenses and Social Security cards. <a class="btn btn-default" href="https://www.wired.com/story/linestar-pipeline-ransomware-leak/?&web_view=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">READ FULL ARTICLE</a>