The Colonial Pipeline ransomware note, May 2021

MAY 07 2021

A screenshot of the ransom note left on Colonial Pipeline's systems on 7 May 2021 by the DarkSide affiliate group. The company shut down 5,500 miles of fuel pipeline, causing panic buying across the US east coast, and paid about 4.4 million dollars, most of which the FBI later clawed back. It is the clearest demonstration that ransomware-as-a-service had become a national infrastructure problem.