The IT Nerd

Last night I went out to get gas at my local Petro Canada which is the closest gas station to my home. Upon arrival, I was greeted with this:

If you look at the top right corner, there’s a handwritten note that says “only cash”. But I wasn’t deterred as I opened the Petro Canada app and tried to do the pay at the pump method via the app. However I was met with this:

You can see that it says “Login is currently unavailable”. So that was a #Fail. Since I didn’t have any cash on me, I was forced to go to my nearest Esso station to fill up. Upon returning home, I decided to go to the Petro Canada website. I was met with this:

If you look at the top, it says “Login is temporarily unavailable”. Thus it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that something is up with Petro Canada. I then checked the companies Twitter feed and it hasn’t been updated in over two days. That’s odd. And checking the local and national media, I I found two stories talking about this online. Twitter has people talking about this as well:

That last Tweet highlights what many are thinking. Which is that this is some sort of cyberattack. I don’t say that lightly. But this reminds me of the Sobeys situation as well as the Garmin situation. In both cases, normal business was disrupted for some period of time. Neither company commented in any significant way on their issues. Then it later came out that both companies were pwned by ransomware. This Petro Canada situation has that feel to it. And we’ll find out what the deal is soon enough because Petro Canada has a very high profile in Canada, which means the Federal Government will start to ask questions about this (if they haven’t already) as in many parts of Canada, gas stations are few and far between. Thus if your closest option for gas is Petro Canada, and the next option is miles of away, you might have a problem. The Federal Government knows that and will want answers. Hopefully Petro Canada will be able to answer them fully and transparently.

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