NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Colonial Pipeline CEO Joe Blount on the ransomware attack on the pipeline's network and the decision to pay the hackers the $4.4 million ransom.
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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Panic fueling, long lines for gas, handwritten signs taped to pumps, empty - those were the headlines last month in the U.S., particularly the southeast, fallout from a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline provides nearly half the East Coast's fuel supply. And when hackers hit its network and demanded ransom, the company shut the pipeline down for six days and ended up paying that ransom, more than $4 million. Joe Blount signed off on that payment. He is CEO of Colonial Pipeline, and he joins me now.
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