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Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras?
An anonymous reader quotes GIzmodo:
City officials and the Secret Service have confirmed that just days before the presidential inauguration, police surveillance cameras in Washington, DC were targeted by hackers. Reportedly, 70% of the CCTV storage devices were infected with ransomware. According to the Washington Post, "City officials said ransomware left police cameras unable to record between January 12 and January 15. The cyberattack affected 123 of 187 network video recorders in a closed-circuit TV system for public spaces across the city, the officials said late Friday."
A spokesperson for the Secret Service says despite the compromised cameras, the safety of the public or protectees was never jeopardized, and the city's CTO says they resolved the problem without paying the ransom by simply removing all software from the devices and rebooting them.
Why in simple fuck is this down-modded?
You know goddam WELL that's what happened.
Someone with access to the cameras clicked on a phishing link.
I #resist and mod it +1 Insightful.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.