A cyberattack has taken down the main pipeline that carries gasoline to the US East Coast, the pipeline’s operator said Friday, in news that raises further alarm about how vulnerable critical systems are to hacking assaults. Colonial Pipeline, which operates pipes that carry refined petroleum products like gas, diesel, jet fuel, home heating oil, and fuel for the military, said in a statement that it’s taken “certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems.”

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