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Hackers, claiming to have stolen data from a nursery chain, threaten to release more information after a ransom demand is unmet. Authorities are investigating, and cybersecurity experts warn that paying the ransom doesn't guarantee data suppression. #cybersecurity #dataleak #hackers #KiddoNursery
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A very good evening and we begin with
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breaking news. Hackers who claim to have
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stolen pictures, names, and addresses of
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thousands of children in a cyber attack
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on a nursery chain have told Sky News
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they will release more data tonight. The
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group calling itself Radiant posted
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images of children from the kiddo
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nursery chain on the dark web and
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demanded a ransom from the company.
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Culture Minister Ian Murray told Sky
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News authorities will pursue those
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responsible. I can assure everyone that
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the full force of government and full
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force of the justice system will be here
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in terms of what the this particular
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instance but in all the other instance
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you'll have seen this week from the
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Jaguar Land Rover instance that the
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government are fully backing the supply
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chains and that company in order to get
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through this particular difficulty and
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we'll be having the same approach to any
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business or any organization who's
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infiltrated in this way but this
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organized criminality will be there'll
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be no stone left unturned in terms of
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dealing with it.
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Well, we've also heard this evening from
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former chief executive of the National
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Cyber Security Center, Kieran Martin,
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who explained what would happen if the
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ransom was paid. What history suggests,
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every so often police, even when the
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criminals are abroad, they hack the
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criminals and they get into their
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digital infrastructure. And what do they
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find? They find that even when companies
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have paid, they've kept the data. Why do
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they keep the data? Because they sell it
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to other criminals. They use it for
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scams. They use it for frauds. this data
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is not coming back. I'm really sorry.
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That's the that's the bit that I would
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say that isn't reassuring. There's no
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way of guaranteeing the suppression of
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this data. And if and when law
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enforcement get to this group, they call
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themselves the Radian Group. They appear
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to be new. And even if the nursery pays
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the ransom, they'll find the data. They
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won't delete it. They never do.
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Skies. Rachel Venerables joins me now.
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So, this group, Rachel, clearly not
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getting their way and now telling us
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they're going to issue more threats and
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potentially release more information.
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Very much so. I mean, this is the way
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that this group clearly and others like
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it, as we've seen before, operate. Data
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is stolen. Uh they go to the company,
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they go to the people in charge and they
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say, "Give me some money or else." And
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obviously in this instance certainly
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we've heard Sky News has heard directly
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from individuals who claim to be from
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the group behind this hack. They call
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themselves Radiant. They say that the
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kiddo nursery group have not been
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engaging with them. They say certainly
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they haven't been paid the amount that
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they have demanded. And so we heard
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already this week how information around
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10 children who go to these nurseries
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had been published on the dark web. And
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within the past couple of hours, Sky
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News has spoken to individuals claiming
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to be from Radiant who say that they
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will publish any minute now effectively
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more information. Information about 30
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children they say and also the personal
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information of around 100 members of
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staff and that's personal information
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about those individuals. We're talking
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about full names, national insurance
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numbers, date of birth, date of births,
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addresses and so on. Uh obviously a
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deeply insidious development, a deeply
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concerning development to have this
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warning uh come from these individuals
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come from this group claiming to be
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radiant uh who say to Sky News that
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they've stolen information uh around
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21,000
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people connected to the kiddo nursery
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group which has nurseries all over the
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world. They've told us that every UK
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nursery associated with kiddo has been
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affected. That's 18 we understand in
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total. some 8,000 children's data
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including things like photographs have
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been stolen. They also claimed to us to
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have stolen things like medical data,
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the giving of drugs and medication to
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these children and also things like
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safeguarding incidents and moments like
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that. Incident logs have also been
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taken. And this was completely
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unsolicited, but they sent to Sky News
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an example of one of those incident logs
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to prove that they had this data.
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Though, of course, we have no intention
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of sharing this any further. They
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clearly just wanted to demonstrate what
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it is that they have. And as I've
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mentioned already, they claim that
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within any minute uh they will publish
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more information this on the dark web as
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they continue to try to extort money
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from the kiddo group. Now, we asked how
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much money they've asked for. They say
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that typically they request from a
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company 1.5% of their yearly revenue,
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their yearly income. In this instance,
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we're talking about hundreds. That would
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be of thousands of pounds. Of course,
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that has not been verified. And this is
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all alleged by these individuals who
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claim that they will be publishing more
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information relating to children and
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staff soon. Certainly this afternoon
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they claim. Now kiddo have been
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contacted multiple times uh since the
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news of this hack broke by Sky News.
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They haven't yet responded to these
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requests for comment. While the
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Metropolitan Police had previously said
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that they received a referral about this
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on Thursday following reports they say
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of a ransomware attack on a Londonbased
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organization. inquiries they say
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ongoing. They are in the early stages
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with the Met Cyber Crime Unit and they
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stress that no arrests have been made.
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Rachel, we will return to you if there's
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an update.
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