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begin with breaking news. A man's been
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arrested by the National Crime Agency.
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It's part of an investigation into a
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cyber incident which affected flights at
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Heathrow and other European airports
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over the course of the weekend. I want
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to take us straight to Sky Asha Hernag.
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Asha, what are we hearing?
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We know that thousands of people are
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still being affected by the impact of
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those delays right across European
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airports. Hephro airport, Berlin,
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Brussels airport, passengers within
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them, all affected by this perceived to
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be ransomware attack as reported by the
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European Agency for cyber security. And
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now the National Crime Agency here in
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the UK have made the arrest of one
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individual as they look into this
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investigation. This was some of the
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disruption as IT systems that were used
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for checking boarding that forced
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airlines uh to essentially ask
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passengers to check in manually. This
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was a problem that stemmed from Collins
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Aerospace, a software provider
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essentially that works with several
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airlines right across the world. And now
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we've learned from the National Crime
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Agency that this man has been arrested
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in the UK in the West Sussex area as
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part of their investigation into this
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so-called cyber incident. The incident,
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as we know, was reported on the 19th of
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September and as I say, affected a large
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number of passengers and airlines too.
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the impact of which still being fa uh
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felt. And we understand this man is in
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his 40s, as I say, is from the West
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Sussex area and he was arrested
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yesterday evening on suspicion of
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Computer Misuse Act offenses. And we've
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got a statement from the deputy director
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of the head of the NCA, the National
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Crime Agency's National Cyber Crime
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Unit, uh Paul Foster. He has said
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although this arrest is a positive step,
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the investigation into this incident is
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in its early stages and remains ongoing.
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Cyber crime is a persistent global
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threat that continues to cause
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significant disruption to the UK.
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Alongside our partners here and
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overseas, the National Crime Agency is
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committed to reducing that threat in
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order to protect the British public.
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That man in his 40s, the NCA say, has
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been released on conditional bail.
