Colonial Pipeline Sued for Gas Crisis From Ransomware Attack (3)

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Colonial Pipeline Co. was sued by a gas station seeking to represent thousands more over the ransomware attack in May that paralyzed the U.S. East Coast’s flow of gasoline, diesel and jetfuel.EZ Mart 1 LLC, a two-pump station in Wilmington, North Carolina, buys its fuel from a distributor supplied by Colonial, according to a complaint filed Monday in federal court in Georgia.Colonial’s headquarters, in Alpharetta, is the site of the “control center” where the electronic ransom note was discovered, EZ Mart says in the lawsuit, in which it seeks to represent morethan 11,000 gas stations and asks for unspecified monetary damages.The hack occurred “despite advance knowledge and warnings,” and in the lead-up to the attack Colonial “repeatedly ignored and rejected efforts by the applicable regulatory agency tomeet with it so as to check on its cybersecurity,” EZ Mart alleges.