Gas flows, but fuel still scarce

Gasoline shortages that have plagued the U.S. East Coast over the last week modestly improved on Sunday as the country's largest fuel pipeline was brought back to normal operations following a crippling cyberattack.

Even with outages slightly easing in many states, at least a third of gas stations were without fuel in Maryland, Virginia and Georgia, according to tracking firm GasBuddy. Roughly half of the stations in the Carolinas were lacking gasoline, and the amount of empty fueling stations in Washington D.C. rose 2% to 83%, GasBuddy data showed.

Overall outages stood at 12,870 stations, down from 13,450 on Saturday.

Gas stations across the Eastern Seaboard ran dry as drivers hoarded gasoline after learning that the 8,900-km Colonial Pipeline had temporarily shut down following the hack, largely seen as the most disruptive cyberattack on record.