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tonight the city of Columbus's director
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of Technology says hundreds of thousands
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of people have had their data posted to
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the dark web thanks for joining us
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tonight at 11 I'm Yolanda Harris and I'm
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Andrew Kinsey he spoke for the first
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time publicly during tonight's city
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council meeting answering questions from
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Council Members ttv's Carla rogner is
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live outside City Hall tonight with what
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he had to say and now what comes next
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Carla yeah there are still so many
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questions about how this Cyber attack
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started and who all has been impacted
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but tonight we learn more about how the
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city's been responding behind the
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scenes for the first time director of
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Technology Sam orth answering questions
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on the city's data breach would you as
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the expert in this circumstance be
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comfortable one coming into City Hall to
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provide your ID would you be comfortable
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for signing up for anything related to
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the city online at this point in time I
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would or says on July 18th he learned
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some data was compromised and took the
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city offline by disconnecting the city's
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network from the internet we
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successfully prevented the attackers the
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attackers from encrypting our data and
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locking us out of our systems he says
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the city was never given an opportunity
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to pay Ransom before the stolen data was
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posted to the dark web in Late July and
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early August the ass City attempted
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through its experts to reach out to
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Rashida before they posted the stolen
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data and we never received a response in
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attending Connor goodwolf The
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Whistleblower who revealed the extent of
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the data posted to the dark web he's
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been served a temporary restraining
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order by the city council president
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Shannon Harden says he learned his
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personal information was on the dark web
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from the media it's terrible you can
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feel it in your stomach when you have
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those fears about your privacy and
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private information worth says cyber
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attacks have become more of a threat
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Nationwide in 2023 he says his
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Department prevented more than 200,000
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attempts at stealing city data in a
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world where cyber criminals continuously
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refine their tactics even the best
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prepared organizations suffer losses the
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city has brought 70% of its systems back
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online he says now attention also turns
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to preventing this from happening again
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we are working around the clock to bring
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441 of the city's applications back
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online but this must be done carefully
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and methodically to ensure our security
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moving forward orth will be required to
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give an update every Monday council is
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also planning a public hearing we want
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to make sure that we do have answers and
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we'll continue to have um um push the
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administration and continue to hold
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space for them to be answered to the
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public and the technology director and
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City Council Members say the most
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important thing people can do right now
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if they're worried they've been impacted
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is sign up for the city's free credit
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monitoring they they say that even
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minors should sign up even if they're
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not old enough yet to have a credit card
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live at City Hall Carla rogner 10TV news
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great information Carla thanks so much
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if you want to know how to enroll in the
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city's free credit monitoring program
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text the word hack to that number on
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61443 345 we'll send a link straight to
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your phone you have until the end of
