The work of the largest colonial pipeline in the United States is suspended due to kiberatak, it is reported on the official website of Colonial Pipeline CO.
COLONIAL PIPELINE COMPANY learned that she became a victim of kiberataki. In response, we disabled certain systems in response to restrave the threat that temporarily stopped the conveyor operations and touched some of our IT systems, “the message.
The company stressed that they had already attracted a “leading third-party cybersecurity company”, the law enforcement and other federal authorities of the country were informed about the occurrence.
Colonial pipeline is the largest oil pipeline in the USA, which deliveries fuel from the plants on the coast of the Gulf of Mexican on the east coast of the country. About 45% of fuel consumed on the east coast is transported daily through the pipeline.