Report: Colonial Pipeline Paid European Hackers $5 Million Ranson Last Week
Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid European hackers $5 million ransom last week after the criminal group hacked the company.
The Colonial Pipeline is back online, but while we fill our cars with gas, the hackers lined their pockets with ransom money.
American infrastructure should not be some stagecoach to be held up at gunpoint by foreign hackers.
We need answers. This can never happen again.
— Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) May 13, 2021
The New York Post reported:
Colonial Pipeline forked over nearly $5 million last week to the Eastern European criminal group that hacked the company, shuttering the largest oil pipeline in the US, spurring widespread gas shortages and panic buying across the Southeast.
