Colonial Pipeline begins pumping gas again after Russian cyberattack shut it down for six days

Fuel will start flowing through the Colonial Pipeline again, the company announced on Wednesday – six days after America’s largest pipeline closed down due to a ransomware attack.

Swaths of Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia are struggling with fuel shortages, and more than 10,000 gas stations have run dry as of Wednesday.

Sections of the pipeline, which runs from Texas to New Jersey, were re-opened manually on Monday, but the main lines were closed until now, causing significant disruption.  

The news will come as a huge relief to motorists and plane passengers, after American…