Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount scheduled to testify at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing June 9. Blount said he authorized the ransom payment to obtain a decryptor key from the DarkSide criminal operation in hopes of speeding up the company’s recovery efforts following the May 7 attack. The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee has requested a full briefing about the attack from the U.S. Department of Energy. The attack on Colonial Pipeline has spurred Republican and Democratic lawmakers to introduce several bills to address cybersecurity issues.”]
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