- The hackers were paid in “untraceable cryptocurrency within hours after the attack,” Bloomberg has reported, “are believed to be located in Russia or Eastern Europe.”
- The cyberattack deployed ransomware, which takes a computer system hostage and refuses to unlock it until a payment is made.
- After successfully resuming operation in part on Wednesday, “Colonial Pipeline has made substantial progress in safely restarting our pipeline system and can report that product delivery has commenced in a majority of the markets we service,” the company said Thursday morning in a statement.
– Nathan Bomey | May 13, 2021
