One of the USA’s largest oil pipelines has been shut by ransomware .
The Colonial Pipeline, which says it carries 100 million gallons a day of refined fuels between Houston, Texas, and New York Harbor, or 45 percent of all fuel needed on the USA’s East Coast. The pipeline carries fuel for cars and trucks, jet fuel, and heating oil.
It’s been offline since May 7th, according to a company statement, due to what the outfit describes as “… a cybersecurity attack [that] involves ransomware.”
“In response, we proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems.”
Third-party experts were engaged to probe and remediate the situation and by ..
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