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Pipeline CEO: Ransom payment 'hardest decision' of career

by Ben FoxEric Tucker
| June 8, 2021 10:27 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief executive of the massive fuel pipeline hit by ransomware said Tuesday that authorizing a multi-million-dollar payment to hackers was the right thing to do after an attack that prompted a gas shortage in much of the eastern U.S., even as federal authorities have discouraged such transactions.

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