This will only be an issue if the pipeline stays down for an extended period of time. And with everyone still mostly working from home/social distancing this is probably the best time for something like this to happen.
Hopefully it will be a wake up call to all companies that backups and disaster recovery plans only work if they are routinely tested and maintained. Any company forced to pay for ransomware (and good luck if they actually deliver anything past payment - ha!) needs to have its executive management held to account. Anyone can get ransomwhere these days - it should be nothing more than a temporary inconvenience if a company has an integrated approach to it's operations - and that's across all business areas, not just IT. Disaster recovery is NOT solely an IT problem.