63 percent of gas stations reported empty pumps in North Carolina and 45 percent in Georgia.
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New York/Houston The gasoline supply on the US east coast resumes after the hacker attack on a central pipeline. On Saturday, 80 percent of the gas stations in Washington reported empty pumps, as the industry service GasBuddy reported. In the state of North Carolina it was 63 percent and in Georgia 45 percent.
Nationwide, the American Automobile Association reported that gasoline was priced at $ 3.04 per gallon, down from $ 2.96 a week earlier. A representative for fuel delivery company Sun Coast Resources said at current flow rates, it could take 20 days for new supplies to reach the furthest point on the pipeline in Linden, New Jersey.
The operator of the Colonial line began operating it again on Wednesday. However, he warned that it would take several days for the system to return to normal. President Joe Biden expressed confidence on Thursday that the delivery bottlenecks would resolve by the weekend.
At the end of last week, the company had taken certain systems offline after a cyber attack in order to contain the threat. The operation of the pipeline came to a complete standstill, which caused gasoline bottlenecks in parts of the country.
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Information about a multi-million dollar ransom payment leaked on Thursday afternoon. According to a report by financial news agency Bloomberg, the operating company Colonial paid Eastern European extortionists nearly five million dollars.
The company transmitted the amount just hours after the attack in the form of an untraceable cryptocurrency, it said, citing two people familiar with the process. After that, the hackers Colonial provided a decryption tool to restore the decommissioned computer system. But this only worked slowly, which is why the pipeline operator finally resorted to its own data backup instruments.
More: Cyber attack on gasoline pipeline: Colonial probably paid a $ 5 million ransom
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