Largest US pipeline to restart operations after hack shut it down for nearly a week

Largest US pipeline to restart operations after hack shut it down for nearly a week

Colonial Pipeline was set to restart operations on Wednesday evening, after a cyber-attack forced the company to shut down the nation’s largest fuel pipeline for nearly a week, the US energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, said.

“We just got off the phone with Colonial Pipeline CEO. They are restarting pipeline operations today at – 5pm,” Granholm wrote in a post on Twitter.

The announcement came as fuel shortages were still taking hold in parts of the US as panicked drivers fill up their tanks in response to last week’s ransomware attack upon the key gasoline artery for the east coast.