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it's been nearly three months since the
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city of Columbus first learned it was
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hacked and its data posted on the dark
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web and tonight the city still is not
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back to normal good evening and thank
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you for joining us tonight at 11 I'm
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Yolanda Harris well the city IT director
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gave an update tonight on the progress
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being made to restore all systems and
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Council approved millions of dollars to
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help with that effort ttv's Carly Dion
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is live outside City Hall with more on
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tonight's council meeting Carly
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yeah Yolanda as Council and other city
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leaders await a final report from the
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data breach Council and cyber security
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experts on that Cyber attack they
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continue to fund recovery efforts to get
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the city's systems back up and running
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as I've said before all of us are in
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this together even the folks on this Das
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Monday night Columbus Department of
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Technology director Sam or addressed the
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council members once again on the
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current status of the Cyber attack
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restoration efforts it is clear that
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this was a very sophisticated intrusion
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or says as they work to restore the
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city's systems every day it's a big
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undertaking he says the city manages
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more than 8.5 pedabytes of data that's
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2.2 trillion sheets of paper since the
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last council meeting three weeks ago or
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says they brought an additional 32
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systems back online there's 106 systems
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remaining the goal is to have all
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systems restored by the end of the month
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we have a large team to deploy to
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identify what data was stolen how many
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records from our systems were exposed
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and what types of information was
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compromised which is why city council
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approved an additional $3 million in
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funding to go toward these restoration
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and protection efforts council member
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Nick Bankston says the funding is coming
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from the income tax set aside fund so we
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set aside 25% of every
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uh that we collect from income tax to
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pay for predominant for in particular um
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our debt services so that's how we pay
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for our bonds but it's also additional
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monies that we set aside for emergencies
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like this in total the city is
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allocating about $7 million to address
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the attack about 2 A5 million will go to
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the investigation including cyber threat
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monitoring a little over $1.6 million is
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for Experian Identity Theft Protection
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Services for people affected more than 2
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million for legal counsel and the last
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million is for long-term cyber threat
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monitoring and it's an investment that
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we would have to make regardless right
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and so it is unfortunate that it had to
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come by way of a cyber security attack
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but these types of Investments are
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things that we're going to have to
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continue to make as we continue to
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evolved in this everchanging landscape
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security and Bankston says this funding
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is just the tip of the iceberg and more
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funding will be needed to increase cyber
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security measures down the line
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live at City Hall Carly Dion 10TV news
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