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we are learning more about a recent
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Cyber attack in Wayne County that
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impacted key government systems most of
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the county was back online relatively
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quickly but the jail was hit especially
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hard CBS News Detroit's Walter Murphy is
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at the new jail downtown with more on
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happened the initial attack was fixed
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fairly quickly but the Sheriff's Office
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says that just a few days later an
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underlying issue took it out again
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tonight everything is back online and
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the Sheriff's Office says the bright
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side of all of this is that they're well
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prepared to fight this in the future we
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could have uh a lot of us could have uh
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notified the public probably in a more
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timely manner Wayne County Sheriff
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Rafael Washington is speaking about
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Cyber attack that impacted his office as
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well as several other Wayne County
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systems on October second the attack
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halted the Jail's ability to get inmates
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to necessary court dates as well as the
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ability for bonds to be posted it also
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made it difficult for family members of
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inmates to be able to visit their loved
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ones forcing Wayne County Jail to Pivot
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from the digital world back to analog
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programming all of this stuff was being
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done manually by the people that you see
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standing up here but we were going
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through and we were doing a physical
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face-to-face headcount of every person
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in the jail the investigation into who
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orchestrated this attack and why is
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still underway but starting tomorrow the
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entire system will be back online and if
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the perpetrators attempt to follow up
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with future attacks the Wayne County
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Sheriff's Office says they're well
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prepared to fend them off there have
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been substantial changes in in our
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environment um since since this incident
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happened so again I'm not going to get
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into those changes for security purposes
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but there have been many many changes
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now we're in a position that those who
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are supposed to be in court tomorrow
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Chief yes will be in court tomorrow
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because we we we figured out how to get
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that done even while the system is being
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repaired and and being put back online
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the Sheriff's Office says that if you
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have any official business with the
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Sheriff's Office to give yourself a
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couple of minutes before you come in to
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get that done just in case there are any
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backlogs for CBS News Detroit I'm Walter
