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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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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
