* Biden has said FBI does not believe Putin was responsible for the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline
* New report says Colonial did meet $5M ransom demand made by DarkSide ransomware gang
* Biden declined to comment on ransom and said the hackers will be prosecuted 'to the full extent of the law'
* Colonial Pipeline has begun a system restart that will take several days to restore normal operations
* Key fuel pipeline was taken offline last week by ransomware attack from Russia-linked hackers
* On Thursday morning, 73% of gas stations in Washington, DC were dry as outages continued
* In North Carolina, 68% were offline and half of stations in Georgia, Virginia and South Carolina were dry
* Station outages spread from New Jersey to Mississippi, and national gas prices rose to $3.028
* Across the affected region, more than 10,000 gas stations were out of service
* Analysts say that it could take several weeks for the fuel distribution system to return to normal
* Gas travels through the pipeline at just 5mph, meaning it takes two weeks to travel the entire length
* Biden orders creation of cyber review board and new software standards for government agencies
President Joe Biden has said the FBI does not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for the ransomware attack that paralyzed a key gas pipeline and spurred fuel shortages across the South.
'We do not believe the Russian government was involved in this in attack. But we do have strong reason to believe that the criminals who did this attack are living in Russia,' Biden told reporters on Thursday, citing an FBI report on the cyberattack.
Biden said the FBI believed Putin was not directly involvement in orchestrating the attack -- though the U.S. president vowed that the criminals responsible would be prosecuted 'to the full extent of the law'.
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Update #1: Biden says Colonial Pipeline hackers based in Russia, but not government-backed (The Hill)
Update #2: Biden: FBI determined Putin not involved in Colonial Pipeline hack (NYPost)
Update #3: ‘No evidence that Russia is involved’ in US fuel pipeline hacking, says Biden (The Indepedent)
WNU Editor: In the meantime the gas crisis continues in the U.S. .... Gas crunch continues across much of US after pipeline hack (AP).
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because folks hoarding, stocking up just like toilet paper...gas fully beginning to flow again.
we have odd behavior in our nation:
some will not take vaccine but offer free beer and they will...or, as in another state, a lottery entrance to win lots of money and they enter by taking the vaccine.
One person, asked why not take it said: it alters DNA
any change for that dude would be better
Heard the gas pipeline was online now.
Biden spoke about it on Thursday, He should've talked about it last Sunday or Monday
5 days late and tens of billions of dollars short. Typical Biden.
TYPICAL COMMENT
people horde. Biden addressed hacking on non govt site. you bitch because, well, you like Trump. Meantime, Biden numbers great... move on.
Liar
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You always lie, how come?
"Biden addressed hacking on non govt site."
They already hacked:
Treasury Department
Commerce Department
State Department
White House
NASA
NSA
all five branches of the U.S. military
Pentagon, the State Department
Biden is 5 days late in telling the country "Don't Panic"
Lunchbox on the Struggle Bus
Joe Biden Struggles to Read Teleprompter, Incoherently Babbles Instructions to “Drivers” in States with Gas Shortages
The Biden admin spent months babbling about and chasing after fake white-supremacist-domestic-terrorists. Wasting the time and resources of US intel agencies while this Russian outfit was spooling up the the Colonial pipeline attack.
INCOMPETENT,
R,
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