Chaotic scenes are playing out across North Carolina as a cyberattack that shut down one of America’s largest oil pipelines wreaks havoc.
Some stations have run out of petrol. Picture: Logan Cyrus / AFPThe FBI identified the group behind the hack of the Colonial Pipeline as DarkSide, a shadowy operation that surfaced last year and attempts to lock up corporate computer systems and force companies to pay to unfreeze them.
In a statement on their website on the dark net, they rejected allegations that they had any official backing. At the White House, Deputy National Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall said Biden was being kept updated on the incident, which threatened to crimp supplies of gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel across much of the eastern United States.
He said it also “undoubtedly” has “huge” national security implications, especially in US-Russia relations.
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