Class Action Calls Colonial Pipeline Owners Negligent For Ransomware Cyberattack

(May 21, 2021, 1:57 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A collective of companies that own the Colonial Pipeline were hit with a putative class action in Georgia federal court on May 18, in which a lead plaintiff claims that the owners were negligent in not sufficiently securing the pipeline’s infrastructure to protect it from the recent ransomware cyberattack that ended up shutting down the pipeline....