The Colonial Pipeline Houston Station, a part of the oil pipeline that was shut down by a ransomware assault
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On 7 Might, hackers pressured a serious oil pipeline within the US to close and prompted US president Joe Biden to declare a state of emergency. Inside hours of the hack, which began the day earlier, Colonial Pipeline Firm paid a ransom of 75 bitcoin – value $4.Four million on the time – to get well the information being held hostage.
In accordance with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the hackers behind it are DarkSide, a felony group that …
