The retail cost of gasoline in the United States reached a record high since 2014. The fuel has risen in price against the background of the suspension of the COLONIAL PIPELINE pipeline. This is stated in a message published on the site of the non-profit American Automotive Association (AAA).
From the moment of stopping the pipeline, due to the hacker attack, gasoline prices increased by 7 percent and exceeded 3 dollars per gallon. This, analysts indicated, turned out to be the maximum value from October 2014. In AAA, it is believed that in the near future the price will continue to fluctuate.
Colonial Pipeline is one of the largest pipeline operators in the United States, about 45 percent of the fuel consumed on the eastern coast of the country is transported. On May 8, the company reported that she attacked the virus-extortionist and stopped the work. CNN claimed that the kiberat was worth a grouping of Russian hackers and their community Darkside.
After that, the pipeline stopped functioning, and fully restored its work only by May 14.
Earlier in May, it became known that the operator paid a ransom of $ 5 million to get access to his data again.