Major US pipeline network shuts after ‘cybersecurity attack’

Colonial Pipeline, which supplies fuel on US east coast, says it has temporarily halted all pipeline operations after hack.

A major pipeline operator in the United States has been forced to shut its entire network after a cyber attack, the company said. Colonial Pipeline said in a statement late on Friday that it was the victim of “a cybersecurity attack”. “In response, we proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems,” it said.