Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million to hackers after cyber attack
Updated: 6:51 AM EDT May 20, 2021 By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, The Associated Press The operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4 million to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems.Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday that after it learned of the May 7 ransomware attack, the company took its pipeline system offline and needed to do everything in its power to restart it quickly and safely, and made the decision then to pay the ransom."This decision ...
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