and others. in a statement to nbc news, the company involved said we have identified a service configuration and disabled it. colonial's ceo testified on capitol hill today. he addressed his decision to ultimately pay the hackers more than $4 million. >> it was the hardest decision i've made in my 39 years in the energy industry. and i know how critical our pipeline is to the country and i put the interests of the country first. >> on monday, the department of justice announced that it had recovered the majority of the ransom colonial paid to darkside hackers, a cyber criminal group believed to be operating inside of russia.