Hacked US east coast pipeline resumes operation

Steep price rise and fuel depletion avoided but normality still weeks away

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Americans stock up at a gas station after a cyberattack crippled the biggest fuel pipeline in the country. © Reuters

SHUJI NAKAYAMA and TAKESHI SHIRAISHI, Nikkei staff writers

NEW YORK/SILICON VALLEY -- The key gasoline pipeline on the east coast of the U.S. shut down by a ransomware cyberattack has resumed operation, although it could take two weeks before fuel supply returns to normality.

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