President Biden Says Russia Bears ‘Some Responsibility’ For Colonial Pipeline Hack

 

 NBC: Biden says no evidence Russian government was involved in pipeline hack  

Biden said that Putin still bears "some responsibility" to respond since DarkSide, a cybercrime gang the FBI says is responsible for the attack on a U.S. gasoline line. 

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Monday that there was no evidence that the Russian government was involved with the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that shut down a major United States fuel pipeline on Friday. 

"I'm going to have a conversation, I'm going to be meeting with President Putin," Biden said. "And, so far, there is no evidence based on, from our intelligence people, that Russia is involved, although there is evidence that the actor's ransomware is in Russia. They have some responsibility to deal with this."  

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Update #1: Biden: ‘No evidence’ Russia hacked Colonial Pipeline, but Putin needs to act (NYPost) Update #2: Biden to discuss Russian ransomware hackers with Putin and suggests Moscow bears ‘some responsibility’ (The Independent)  

WNU Editor: The FBI is saying a criminal gang is responsible for this Colonial Pipeline cyberattack .... Cyberattack on US pipeline carried out by criminal gang, says FBI (DW).