Colonial Pipeline paid nearly $5 million in ransom to Eastern European hackers who compromised the energy company’s pipeline system according to a Thursday report from Bloomberg.
The gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel company paid the ransom to a hacker group called DarkSide earlier this week, the outlet said, based on reports from two sources close to the situation. The deposit helped get the pipeline back online on Wednesday afternoon, though because of the stoppage, it still may be several days before the supply is back to normal across the southeast.
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