Colonial Pipeline's website down amid cyber attack


FILE PHOTO: Holding tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at Colonial Pipeline's Charlotte Tank Farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Drone Base

(Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline's website was down on Tuesday as the operator of the largest fuel pipeline in the United States deals with a cyber-security attack that shut its entire network.

The pipeline will not resume full operations for several more days due to the attack blamed on a shadowy criminal network called DarkSide.

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