Pipeline halts operations after cyberattack
By ALAN SUDERMAN and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press
Traffic on I-95 passes oil storage tanks Sept. 8, 2008, owned by the Colonial Pipeline Company in Linden, N.J. A major pipeline that transports fuels along the East Coast says it had to stop operations because it was the victim of a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline said in a statement late Friday that it “took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems.”
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Replay Video UP NEXT A cyberattack has forced the shutdown of a major gas pipeline in the U.S. that supplies 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. The cyberattack against Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Houston to Linden, New Jersey, began 7 p.m. on Friday night, according to a Federal Emergency Management Agency report reviewed by ABC News. We proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems, the company said in a statement.
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Replay Video UP NEXT A cyberattack has forced the shutdown of a major gas pipeline in the U.S. that supplies 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. The cyberattack against Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Houston to Linden, New Jersey, began 7 p.m. on Friday night, according to a Federal Emergency Management Agency report reviewed by ABC News. We proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems, the company said in a statement.