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Experts analyze the extent of the network breach in North Miami City and discuss the efforts being made to restore services. Learn about the measures taken to safeguard personal data and the city's financial tools. Stay updated on the progress of getting systems back up and running. #NetworkBreach #DataSecurity #ServiceRestoration #NorthMiamiCity #Cybersecurity #CityOperations #PersonalDataProtection #FinancialTools #SystemRecovery #StayInformed
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residents and business owners are really
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feeling the impact so how long will it
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take to fix Christy that's the biggest
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question right now we don't know how far
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this breach goes and right now we don't
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know how long it'll take to get this
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network system back up and running again
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but the city says that's what they're
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working on to try and get Services back
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to normal for the folks in this
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community talk about a blue screen of
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death your system has been tested for
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security and unfortunately your system
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was vulnerable sources say that that's
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what it and North Miami city staff are
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started seeing on their computer screens
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amid what the city's calling a possible
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breach of its Network system they're in
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big trouble because they have what is
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called a ransomware attack Reginald
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Andre is a cyber security expert we
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showed him the message which reads we
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specialize in file encryption and
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Industrial Espionage nothing personal
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it's just business we recommend
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contacting us as your confidential files
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have been stolen and will be sold to
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interested parties unless you pay remove
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them from our clouds and auction or
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decrypt your files this happens because
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there's some type of vulnerability in
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the system either it's an update
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somebody clicked on something city hall
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has essentially remained closed for
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business as the city's it team along
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with local and federal authorities
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investigate the extent of the breach
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kind of like an onion if you put layers
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and layers and layers of security you
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can be pretty close to making sure this
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doesn't happen Andre just hopes there's
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a backup all of their documents their
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emails whatever programs the city uses
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for planning and development and if they
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do not have a backup that means that
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they have to start from scratch the
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city's yet to say if residents personal
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or City personnel data were compromised
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or if any of the city's Financial tools
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or bank accounts have been impacted
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they're not screwing up the city to
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screwing up the people in the city Leela
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Neil just wants his permit to open up
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his restaurant until then we're stuck
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the mayor says manual steps were taken
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to safeguard payroll and plans to get
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Services back up and running were also
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being finalized we saw some of that
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progress yesterday afternoon when the
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city started taking water bill payments
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via check and money
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order we also saw some folks going in
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and out of planning and Community
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Development here outside the city but
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mostly just for information sake we have
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some other offices over in city hall
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there's a woman sitting there at the
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front desk basically telling people
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their clothed but you can still make
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those water bill payments so in the
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meantime we're learning of course that
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it is against the law for municipalities
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to actually pay these ransomware hackers
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or attackers anything again under law
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that they cannot do that but they also
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required to report these cyber attacks
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to the state if and when they happen
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within a certain amount of time
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Insurance then takes over after a lot of
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that stuff so how this kind of plays out
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and how long it'll take before these
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systems get up and running again still
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unknown but as soon as we learn we'll
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pass along to you right here on local
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tend local.com we're in North Miami Len
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livings local tend