What We Know About the Colonial Pipeline Shutdown

Colonial Pipeline Baltimore Delivery in Maryland. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images On Friday, Colonial Pipeline shut down its 5,550-mile gasoline pipeline following on a cyberattack on the company’s computer systems. The pipeline, which runs from the Gulf Coast to New Jersey, is the largest conduit for gasoline in the country, transporting nearly half of the gasoline used on the East Coast. Below is what we know about the shutdown, its impact, and the cyberattack which prompted it.

The administration considered other steps that might alleviate shortages, including moving gasoline, diesel and jet fuel by train, or issuing a waiver for a 1920 law known as the Jones Act, which requires that maritime shipments be on vessels owned and staffed by Americans. But it was unclear if the right kind of either rail cars or foreign-registered ships were available.

When will the pipeline reopen? Within days, apparently. Colonial Pipeline said Monday that it is using a phased approach to reopening the pipeline, “based on a number of factors with safety and compliance driving our operational decisions, and the goal of substantially restoring operational service by the end of the week.”

Colonial was hit with a ransomware attack, in which hackers take computerized systems hostage until a payment is made. On Thursday, the attackers took nearly 100 gigabytes of data out of Colonial’s network in just two hours, Bloomberg reported. It remains unclear what the hackers demanded. Colonial Pipeline shut down the pipeline as a precautionary measure, they said; the ransomware itself did not directly cause the shutdown.

Colonial was threatened that the stolen data would be leaked to the internet while the information that was encrypted by the hackers on computers inside the network would remain locked unless it paid a ransom, said [people familiar with the matter], who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.

On Sunday, the company said in a press release it would bring the 5,500-mile pipeline back online “only when we believe it is safe to do so, and in full compliance with the approval of all federal regulations.” Some smaller lines are operational. On Monday, the company said it is working to restore operations by the end of the week.

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