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On May 7, 2021, a cyberattack took place on the Colonial Pipeline, headquartered in the state of Georgia. Colonial Pipeline had to proactively shut down its operations after ransomware hackers broke into some of its networks, according to U.S. officials. The Colonial Pipeline, the biggest fuel pipeline in the U.S., delivers about 45% of what…
Jason deBruyn / WUNC
Originally published on May 17, 2021 9:28 am
After a cyberattack that forced the Colonial Pipeline to stop moving gasoline more than a week ago, finding gas in North Carolina is starting to get a little easier.
According to the latest figures from GasBuddy as of 8:53 a.m. Monday morning, 57% of gas stations in the Tar Heel State are still without gas.
While that number seems like a lot, it’s an improvement from the 65% stations experiencing outages on Sunday. At one point last Thursday, more than 71% of gas stations in North Carolina were without fuel.
The operator of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline that was hit with a ransomware cyberattack says it has resumed normal operations and is now delivering millions of gallons of fuel per hour. The Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline had begun the process of restarting the pipeline’s operations this past Wednesday evening.