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It probably is, their billing systems aren’t though. I believe they shut down the pipeline because they were unable to bill.

• didericis 5y ago
  This is an extremely important detail which seems overlooked. The pipeline did not need to be shutdown because of a danger to infrastructure, it was a corporate management decision to protect the company’s interests. Colonial used a ransomeware attack on their company to do their own form of retaliatory blackmail on the entire southeast US to get a state level response and avoid the payout. The above is not a defense of ransomeware, and I understand why Colonial acted as they did/it seems to have worked. They likely would not have gotten state level help had they not shut down the pipeline. But they have a larger level of responsibility for the damage caused by the pipeline shutdown than is being portrayed.