On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was joined by Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall to speak on the subject of “the most significant and successful attack on energy infrastructure we know of in the United States,” the cyberattack which was launched on the Colonial Pipeline — the largest refined products pipeline in the country — last week.
“On Friday evening, May 7th, Colonial Pipeline reported that its pipeline system had been subject to a ransomware cyberattack. Colonial chose to shut down its pipeline operations as a precautionary measure and to ensure that the ransomware could not migrate from business computer systems to those that control and operate the pipeline. We’ve been in ongoing contact with Colonial, and the President continues to be regularly briefed on the incident and our work,” Sherwood-Randall said during the briefing.
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