Jake Holland reports:
Colonial Pipeline Co. and its owners acted negligently by employing lax cybersecurity standards that left the company vulnerable to a massive ransomware attack, a proposed Georgia federal court class action alleges.
The company breached its duty to employ industry security standards, and that failure translated into system outages that harmed consumers by raising prices at the pump, plaintiff Ramon Dickerson argued in a proposed action filed May 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
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