Mark Gongloff, Columnist

A Massive Pipeline Hack Is Just a Taste of What’s to Come

Our infrastructure and companies are vulnerable to cyberattack, and we’re not nearly ready.

Under attack.

Photographer: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

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The Northeast blackout of 2003 was memorable for many reasons, some of them positive, especially in pandemic-tinged hindsight. All of New York City was out in the streets together, sweating, walking, getting free water bottles from bars. At one point my own wandering exodus pack randomly included the actor Sean Astin for some reason. It was kind of a blast.