Chinanews, May 19, according to the US Chinese website, on the 18th local time, Colonial Pipeline, which resumed operations after a hacking attack, said that its dispatch system once again failed. , Resulting in customers unable to plan to reserve fuel.
The company said that the outage was because the company was strengthening its network system and causing the system outage, and it was not another attack on its network.
According to reports, Colonier's fuel dispatch system is operated by a third party, the privately held Transport4 company, which also handles similar logistics for other pipeline companies.
Transport4 did not respond to media inquiries about whether other hosting companies also have network communication problems.
According to the report, a market insider said that although Colonier's dispatch network has been restored, the operation speed is still slow.
On May 7, the system of the Colonial Petroleum Pipeline Company was attacked by the hacker team from the "dark side", which paralyzed the "oil arteries" of the United States.
The company’s 8,900-kilometer transportation system was forced to shut down for six days. This was the most devastating cyber attack on record, resulting in millions of barrels of gasoline and diesel that could not be sent to oil storage in the eastern United States. tank.
According to data from GasBuddy, a fuel price tracking company, as of the 18th, there are still more than 10,400 gas stations in the United States without fuel, but this is lower than the 16,000 at the peak of last week.
GasBuddy said that in Washington, DC, one of the worst-affected areas, less than 70% of gas stations still have no fuel, but this is down from before.
In addition, the oil cut-off rates in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia have all fallen below 50%.