around the country. waynesburg school district, $300,000 stolen. sherwood, arkansas, 200 grand, bullet county, kentucky $415,000. willow, california, got off easy, just $4,000. hackers apparently from across the globe targeting school districts in small municipalities thinking that they re vulnerable. we visited upstate new york, district superintendent chris crowley told us they were stunned when they found out. you think you re going to be dealing with teachers and providing the best program for students, and suddenly you re being told that you ve lost almost $3 million to computer hackers. it s, you can t even fathom what it feels like and the frustration. reporter: that three million was about 20% of their budget. the good news is most of that money was recovered, $2.5
personal and corporate information. everything from your credit card transactions to intellectual property. so are we still at risk and how do we protect ourselves? gregory evans is the author of the book how to be the world s number one hacker. he s with us from atlanta. nice distinction to have that title and nice to see you this morning. good morning. how are you? i m doing well other than this news this morning, literally, this morning that just came out. the new york times reporting that the chinese schools have been behind these google cyber attacks. literally kids almost being bred to be hackers. how do we stop that? well, it s really hard to stop that. i was telling your producers yesterday, here in the united states, when our kids are young, we get them into sports. we get them into entertainment. we tell them they can be the next michael jordan or next britney spears. in china, they re telling them they can be the next bill gates. they re teaching their kids at an e
month to secure the town again. that s from the leaders on the ground. about 15,000 nato and afghan troops are taking part in the operation, said to be the biggest since the afghan war began some nine years ago. security experts are calling it a coordinated global attack unfolding over a year and a half. the perpetrators are computer hackers. and they have been very successful. an internet security firm called net witness reports the hackers broke into computers at more than 2400 companies. once inside, they are said to have stolen information on everything from emails to credit card transactions. net witness reports the hackers hit about 74,000 computers around the world. using something called bot net. that s when hackers use a group of hijacked computers to do the dirty work for them. no word on who pulled off this giant attack. although they are believed to be based in china and across europe. well, do you remember this woman? crystal gail manningham.
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