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on your side talking to an expert about
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hackers and thieves targeting City
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governments and ransomware attacks we
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told you a number of this happening well
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this just happened to the city of tarant
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now and our your reporter Bria Chapman
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is live and on your side getting that
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information from experts about the next
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steps the city has to
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take yeah that's right so the company
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that I spoke to they actually specialize
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and how to prevent ransomware attacks
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are happening for cities and businesses
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and they also step in if does happen to
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help you recover your data but they tell
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me this could happen to any of us they
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say that is why protecting yourself and
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your information is key house un CEO
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John Miller says cyber attacker want
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wants any and everyone's information and
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a lot of times municipalities are the
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most vulnerable they say that is because
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some cities are using older outdated
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Systems and Technology that makes it
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easier for these type of attacks to
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happen and Miller says study show if
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you're a victim once and you don't take
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the right protocols then more than
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likely it will happen again that's why
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prevention is the best thing to
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do not a lot of local governments pay
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right where the attackers will still go
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but it turns into an outrage thing where
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you know a local a local government you
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know gets hacked there's a ransomware
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request and if there's any other way way
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to recover outside of paying them
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normally they'll do whatever it takes to
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happen which in most cases results in a
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loss of service for quite some
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time yeah but the good news is Miller
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says it seems like the city of tant took
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action quickly and they were able to
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shut their systems down now tant mayor
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Wayman Newton tells me after the attack
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the officials immediately followed
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protocols including contacting Federal
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authorities your reporter live tonight
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in terent I'm Bria Chapman wbrc 6 news
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on your side right now on the
