According to Military disclosures, a Canadian pipeline was assaulted by Russian hackers.

A Russian government-connected hacktivist group has reportedly claimed to have breached the networks of a Canadian gas pipeline, according to a recent piece by the New York Times. The documents contained an exchange between unspecified Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers and a cybercriminal group called ‘Zarya’. According to the documents, the hackers allegedly shared screenshots in February that showed they had the capability to increase valve pressure, disable alarms and make emergency shutdowns of an unspecified gas distribution station in Canada. The White House, National Security Council and Department of Homeland Security have declined to comment on the pipeline claims, while National Security Council spokesman John Kirby suggested some of the documents in the leaked tranche “have been doctored.” The documents appeared online in late February and early March on the chat platform Discord, but the first reports on the leaks did not emerge until last week. A number of officials, including from US-allied countries, have cast doubt on the authenticity of the leak, pointing to a number of inconsistencies and factual inaccuracies. Ukraine has even suggested that the leak is a Russian plo