Joseph Blount, JR. President and CEO of colonial pipelines, colonial pipelines attacked in the Senate Land Safety and Government Affairs on colonial pipelines, US Capitol, US, June 8, June 8, 2021. Gremy Jennings / Swimming Pool Through Reuters  CEO of Colonial Pipeline Joseph will be in the US Senate Committee, the company's network defense has been in place, but the last month's attacks have undermined.
Calling the hearing review of threats to key infrastructure and closed colonial pipelines to attack the company's main fuel pipeline last month.  
is attributed to a gang named Darkside, causing spikes, panic purchases and local fuel shortages of gasoline prices. The President Joe Benden As a US economy from popularity, it has put forward a major political headache for Joe Belden.  Senator questioned whether the colonization was prepared for ransom software attacks and the timetable for the company's response. Before paying ransoms to federal guidelines, some suggested colonies are not sufficient to consult with the US government.
Blount said that the colony did not have special ransom software attacks, but there is indeed an emergency response plan. He said that the company has reached the Federal Investigation Bureau within a few hours of Cyber attack.  
"We take the network security very seriously," said Blount. Despite this, he said that the legacy VPN (virtual private network) system that has occurred, these systems do not provide multi-factor authentication.  He said that the system was protected the password. "This is not just colonial123," he said.
Blount said he decided to pay the ransom and decided to make the margin as a confidential decision as much as possible.  "We understand this decision is our decision, decide whether to pay ransom," he said.
However, even after gaining the critical, he still continued to him, recovering from the attack and is recovering the seven financial systems from July from May 7.  The Ministry of Justice said on Monday that it has recruited approximately $ 2.3 million in encrypted currency payments paid by the colonial pipe.
The colonial pipe said before, it pays nearly 5 beautifulYuan's hacker Regain got accessed. After the height of April is $ 63,000, the value of encryption currency in recent weeks has fallen below $ 35,000.  Bitcoin seizures is rare, but the authorities have strengthened their expertise in tracking digital currency traffic, because the ransom software has become a growing national security threat and further strains between the United States and Russia. The relationship, many of which are based on.