It is being reported that US officials suspectIranian hackers are behind a series of breaches of systems that monitor the amount of fuel in storage tanks serving gas stations in multiple states. They exploited automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems that were sitting online with unprotected by passwords, allowing them to intefere with display readings on the tanks but not the actual levels of fuel in them.
CNN has the story here: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/politics/iran-hackers-tank-readers-gas-stations
Lieutenant General Ross Coffman (U.S. Army, Ret.), who currently serves as President of Forward Edge-AI, provided the following comments:
“This cyber attack should come as no surprise. I cannot confirm if these cyber terrorists are Iranian, Iranian proxies, or another nefarious actor. However, I can confirm that the weakest link will always be exploited by our advisories. They will target every chink in our cyber armor. his is happening daily and we still live in a pre-quantum world. Post-quantum will be 1000x worse. The time to get ready is now!“
Strangely, I am not at all shocked about this. This is another example of infrastructure being targeted by threat actors. And it will keep happening until organizations wake up and take the threat seriously.
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Iran Hackers Suspected in Gas Station Tank Readers Breach
It is being reported that US officials suspectIranian hackers are behind a series of breaches of systems that monitor the amount of fuel in storage tanks serving gas stations in multiple states. They exploited automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems that were sitting online with unprotected by passwords, allowing them to intefere with display readings on the tanks but not the actual levels of fuel in them.
CNN has the story here: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/politics/iran-hackers-tank-readers-gas-stations
Lieutenant General Ross Coffman (U.S. Army, Ret.), who currently serves as President of Forward Edge-AI, provided the following comments:
“This cyber attack should come as no surprise. I cannot confirm if these cyber terrorists are Iranian, Iranian proxies, or another nefarious actor. However, I can confirm that the weakest link will always be exploited by our advisories. They will target every chink in our cyber armor. his is happening daily and we still live in a pre-quantum world. Post-quantum will be 1000x worse. The time to get ready is now!“
Strangely, I am not at all shocked about this. This is another example of infrastructure being targeted by threat actors. And it will keep happening until organizations wake up and take the threat seriously.
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