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| DATE | 2023-06-16 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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Spy Tool Helped FBI Solve Pipeline Hack, Other Major Crimes, U.S.
Officials Say
Biden administration pushes to renew spying law that privacy advocates
say inappropriately collects data without a warrant
By Dustin Volz
Updated June 13, 2023 12:53 pm ET
The cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline—its Dorsey Junction Station
near Washington is pictured—caused a dayslong gasoline shortage. Photo:
Drew Angerer/Getty Images
WASHINGTON—Intelligence gleaned through a surveillance program due to
lapse at the end of the year helped U.S. investigators solve a 2021
cyberattack that prompted the shutdown of the largest conduit of fuel on
the East Coast, and claw back millions of dollars in ransom the
pipeline’s operator paid to the perpetrators, senior U.S. officials
said.
The program, authorized under what is known as Section 702 of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enabled the administration to
confirm the identity of the hacker responsible for the attack on the
Colonial Pipeline, which caused a dayslong gasoline shortage, the
officials said.
The disclosure of the use of the law in pursuing the culprits behind one
of the most disruptive cyberattacks ever on U.S. critical
infrastructure—previously linked to a Russian criminal group—comes as
part of a campaign by the Biden administration to rally congressional
support for renewing Section 702 before it expires at the end of
December, amid growing bipartisan concern about the program’s risks to
Americans’ privacy.
The program allows the National Security Agency, the nation’s premier
electronic eavesdropping outfit, to collect communications of foreigners
living overseas from U.S. companies such as Alphabet’s Google, Meta
Platforms, Microsoft, and Apple. But because of the global nature of
communications, it also collects texts, calls, emails and other digital
content belonging to Americans.
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Classified details about Section 702 were revealed 10 years ago by
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