Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, May 11th, and this is your FT news briefing.

The hackers blamed for the colonial pipeline attacks that they didn't want to create problems

for society, and tech stocks had their worst day since March. Vice media is jumping onto the

streaming band Wagon and UK companies trying to export services to Europe are discovering a lot

of post-Brexit frustration. A lot of attention was given to fishing, to areas that were well

publicized, but not so much to what happens if you want to as a British lawyer practice in the EU.

I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

The colonial pipeline company yesterday said it's still working to restore service

after a cyber attack forced it to shut down a critical conduit used to get refined fuel from

the Gulf Coast to customers in the southern and eastern US. Meanwhile, the hackers blamed for the

attack, a group called Darkside, issued a statement saying they didn't mean to create problems for

society. They just wanted to make some money. The FT's Hannah Murphy is reporting on this story

and the FBI's response. Well, what I thought was interesting actually was that the FBI went out and

named the attackers Darkside, which was an unusual move. You know, there's hundreds of ransomware

attacks. I'm sure daily and they're calling out this one gang very publicly. In part, I'm sure

to answer to a question of, you know, was this a nation state or not? Darkside, we believe are

Russia-based and Russia typically does not pursue ransomware criminals. In fact, in some cases,

it's believed that it may support them. Whether indirectly or directly, we do not know. So

this does lend some weight to calls that are already ongoing for the Biden administration to look

at, you know, sanctioning Russia in the cyberspace and sanctioning Russia when it comes to

facilitating this sort of criminal potentially. So, Hannah, what do you make of the statement that

Darkside apparently issued? It was sort of an apology, right? This is unusual because typically

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