{"id":1565,"date":"2021-05-20T02:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/colonial-pipeline-confirms-it-paid-4-4m-ransom-to-hacker-gang-after-attack\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T02:14:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:14:43","slug":"colonial-pipeline-confirms-it-paid-4-4m-ransom-to-hacker-gang-after-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/colonial-pipeline-confirms-it-paid-4-4m-ransom-to-hacker-gang-after-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Pipeline confirms it paid $4.4m ransom to hacker gang after attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s CEO authorized the payment as a means to restart the pipeline\u2019s systems quickly and safely<\/p>\n<p>The operator of the nation\u2019s largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4m to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday that after it learned of the 7 May ransomware attack, the company took its pipeline system offline and needed to do everything in its power to restart it quickly and safely, and made the decision then to pay the ransom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/19\/colonial-pipeline-cyber-attack-ransom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5c91f18c78144e9cc4caa53c6665f842d7af8bd9\/0_321_7273_4364\/master\/7273.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=580117fc0b127f75c24e2d7d8b210591\" title=\"Colonial Pipeline confirms it paid $4.4m ransom to hacker gang after attack\" \/>The company\u2019s CEO authorized the payment as a means to restart the pipeline\u2019s systems quickly and safely<br \/>\nThe operator of the nation\u2019s largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4m to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems.<br \/>\nColonial Pipeline said Wednesday that after it learned of the 7 May ransomware attack, the company took its pipeline system offline and needed to do everything in its power to restart it quickly and safely, and made the decision then to pay the ransom. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s CEO authorized the payment as a means to restart the pipeline\u2019s systems quickly and safely The operator of the nation\u2019s largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4m to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems. Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday that after it learned of the 7 May ransomware attack, the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/colonial-pipeline-confirms-it-paid-4-4m-ransom-to-hacker-gang-after-attack\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colonial Pipeline confirms it paid $4.4m ransom to hacker gang after attack<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}