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Colonial Pipeline (2021) — Status: resolved

Verdictconfirmed95%
1 check · 4/30/2026

1 → confirmed

Our claim

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Subject
Colonial Pipeline (2021)
Property
Status
Value
resolved
As Of
May 12, 2021
Notes
Pipeline restarted May 12, 2021 (6-day shutdown); DOJ recovered $2.3M of ransom by June 7, 2021

Source evidence

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confirmed95%primaryHaiku 4.5 · 4/30/2026

NoteThe source text directly confirms all three elements of the claim: (1) The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack occurred in May 2021; (2) The DOJ recovered $2.3 million in Bitcoin ransom, announced on June 7, 2021; (3) The pipeline restarted operations after a 6-day shutdown (May 7 attack to May 12-13 restart). The claim's 'Status = resolved (as of 2021-05-12)' is reasonable given the pipeline restarted on May 12, 2021, though the source's publication date is June 7-8, 2021. The temporal alignment is correct: the claim references the restart date (May 12) as the resolution point, and the source confirms this occurred.

Case № f_qWCA79ISjsFiled 4/30/2026Confidence 95%
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