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new data showing how common and how
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devastating cyber attacks are becoming
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across the country according to a new
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report from IBM the global average cost
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of a data breach is $4.8 million this
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year that's a 10% increase from last
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year and according to Forbes 2023 saw a
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72% increase in data breaches since 2021
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the rise comes as Columbus is dealing
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with its own Cyber attack of course that
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leaked hundreds of thousands of people's
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information to the dark web ttb was
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first to tell tell you about the attack
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one month ago yesterday ttv's ter Jabor
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looks at the timeline and where that
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investigation stands now here's what we
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know the city of Columbus says on July
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18th the city severed its internet
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connection to reduce the threat to what
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the city called a potential malicious
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link on July 22nd ttv's Lacy crisp was
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the first to tell you about the impact
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of the Cyber hack less than 10 days
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later TTV learned the bank accounts for
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at least two Columbus police officers
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had been hacked the next day cyber
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experts said that the hacker group R was
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demanding a nearly $2 million Ransom the
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group claimed they stole 6 and a half
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terabytes of city data the next day the
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city offered free credit monitoring to
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all city employees on August 7th the
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hacker group claims they made 45% of the
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city's data they obtained public just 2
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Days Later the first class action
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lawsuit was filed against the city it
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was filed on behalf of Columbus police
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officers a few days later Columbus mayor
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Andrew gther spoke to tentv here's what
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he said when we asked about what type of
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data was on the dark web we believe that
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the screenshots of the data files are
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the most compelling asset they had but
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that sensitive files were either
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corrupted uh making them totally uh
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unusable just hours after mayor Ginther
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interviewed with 10TV a cyber security
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expert came forward claiming he was able
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to download hundreds of thousands of
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people's private information off the
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dark web including people who visited
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city hall and Crime Victims two days
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later tentv asked mayor Ginther if he
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lied and asked about transparency I
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shared the best information that I had
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at the time based on reports and
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confirmation from cyber Security Experts
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one day later the city expands free
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credit monitoring to all Columbus
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residents and anyone who believes they
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could be impacted the next day Saturday
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almost one month after the Cyber attack
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the mayor admits citizens information
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was exposed in the data leak we believe
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that uh it is safe to assume that other
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information uh personal identifiable
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information uh will will be out there
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two days later a cyber security expert
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finds even more people's information on
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the dark web and on August 20th a second
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class action lawsuit was filed against
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the city this time on behalf of all
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Columbus firefighters and police
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officers that was ttv's Terry jaor with
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that look back and today we are learning
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more than 7,400 people have now signed
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up for that free credit monitoring
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through the city to sign up for that
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credit monitoring text the word hack to
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that number on your screen
