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we were first to report this morning
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that data stolen from the city of
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Columbus now leaked into the dark web
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thousands of files including passwords
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and employee logins now free to be used
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by cyber Crooks they are showing the
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profiles for a bunch of users we're with
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it consultant Daniel malet with cmit
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Solutions as he reviews data stolen from
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the city of Columbus and leaked Thursday
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morning on the dark web after a $2
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million Ransom in Bitcoin was not paid
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and the swiped info not bought at
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auction they could be backup files
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HR or employees or you know could be
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sensitive data hackers calling
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themselves R claim last month they stole
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6.5 terabytes of data from the city
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meldet says less than half more than
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225,000 files now posted in two folders
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on R's website if someone had a file on
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their computer that had sensitive
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then that would be available here MDA
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believes the rest of the stolen data may
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have been sold or not released by the
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hackers mayor Ginther who has not spoken
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publicly about the incident in two weeks
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has said the city was able to prevent
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even more data from being stolen when
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the city unplugged from the internet
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ABC6 asking to speak with the mayor
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Thursday but instead receiving this
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statement which reads in part while a
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foreign cyber threat actor claims to
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have released city data it has not been
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validated that the data is usable or
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valuable the fact that the threat
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actor's attempted data auction failed is
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a strong indication that the data lacks
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value to those who would seek to do harm
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or profit from it the city is presently
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performing forensics to assess the
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extent of the data stolen and released
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the mayor goes on to say because of an
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ongoing investigation the city's ability
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to comment is limited since the hack at
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least a dozen fop members say their
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personal information has been
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compromised and we are learning some
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Columbus firefighters Al targeted we've
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had a handful of members reach out uh
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with credit polls information
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potentially showing up on the dark web
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information now being mailed to city
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workers homes how to sign up for credit
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monitoring and identity theft Prevention
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Services for two years malda says the
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one thing not to do troll the dark web
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to try and see if your information was
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stolen no I don't I don't suggest that
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at all just because it's it's way too
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risky on your side Steve LaVine ABC 6
