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Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5 Million in Ransom to Hackers

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The payment clears the way for gas to begin flowing again, but it risks emboldening other criminal groups to take American companies hostage by seizing control of their computers. By BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR, NICOLE PERLROTH AND CLIFFORD KRAUSS from NYT

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