The Colonial pipeline restored operations but it will take time to recover all its service

Pipeline authorities reported that they managed to restore operations after the cyberattack that paralyzed their functioning

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The operations of the oil pipeline Colonial that suffered a cyberattack last Friday, they restarted around 5pm ET on Wednesday, and it is likely that service outages and stockouts of gasoline still continue in some markets for a few days, but it is expected to recover full service in a few days.

“Colonial will move as much gasoline, diesel and jet fuel as possible safely and will continue to do so until markets return to normal ”Said the company.

The pipeline Colonial is the one that provides the 45% of supply of the west thing , so your close after a cyber attack that paralyzed operations, raised concerns about the vulnerability of this key infrastructure for States United.

“It will take several days for the product delivery supply chain to return to normal,” the company said on its website. “Some markets served by Colonial Pipeline may experience, or continue to experience, intermittent service interruptions during the start-up period.”

The closure of the fuel line, stretching from Texas to New Jersey, had caused increased demand for gasoline in some US states , despite claims by industry analysts that the impact of the shutdown would be relatively minor, provided pipeline service was restored soon.

The FBI said that a group of Russian cybercriminals calling themselves DarkSide is behind the cyber attack .

The Russian government refused to be behind the cyberattack that left the pipeline network Colonial Pipeline ctos inactive since the night of Friday, May 7.

The pipeline company was forced to stop operations on the line after hackers accessed your computer systems with the cyberattack with data hijacking and asked for a monetary ransom to unlock the supply of gasoline and other refined fuels.

The states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia are the states most affected by fuel shortages due to cyberattack that occurred last Friday, May 7 on the pipelines of the Colonial Pipeline company,

Secretary of National Security Alejandro Mayorkas stated that ransomware attacks have left only this year m More than $ 600 , 000 millions of dollars in losses in the country.