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Delighted that you got the i competition. it is all good. im l delighted that you got the result you wanted. it was good enough. enjoy the rest of the tournament steve and mike thomas, thank you very much for talking to us. the bbc has learned that the post office has made payouts to 400 former sub—postmasters and mistresses who were victims of the faulty horizon computer system. an it fault made it look as if money had gone missing from post office accounts. a number of staff were prosecuted,...

Look like money had gone missing. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent, colletta smith, has been hearing about the impact on three generations of one family. when we came here, this used to be a post office. anjana and baljhit sethi owned this branch. in fact, anjanas dad was a postmaster too — theyre a post office family. but 20 years ago, they went from running a successful business to financial ruin. it was all because, in 2001, the post office computer system at their branch started showing ...

— others suffered financial ruin or gave up their businesses. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent, colletta smith, has been hearing about the impact on three generations of one family. when we came here, this used to be a post office. anjuna and baljit sethi owned this branch. in fact, anjunas dad was a sub—postmaster, too. they are a post office family. but 20 years ago, they went from running a successful business to financial ruin. it was all because, in 2001, the post office computer syst...

Theyre a post office family. but 20 years ago, they went from running a successful business to financial ruin. it was all because, in 2001, the post office computer system at their branch started showing big losses which he was being asked to come from his own pocket. i said to the post office, "sorry, i cannot put in £17,000, i do not have that kind of money." the post office said, if they would not pay up, the branch would be closed. they had no choice. they lost their business and were force...

Was a sub—postmaster, too. they are a post office family. but 20 years ago, they went from running a successful business to financial ruin. it was all because, in 2001, the post office computer system at their branch started showing big losses, which baljit was being asked to cover from his own pocket. so i said to the post office, sorry, i cant put in £17,000. i dont have that kind of money. the post office said, if they wouldnt pay up, the branch would be closed. the sethis had no choice. t...

Until we adopt that kind of posture for cyber infrastructure, which is has critical, if not more to u.s. interests, we will not see the end of ransomware attacks across the united states. >> education secretary granholm told companies not pay ransoms and do a better job protecting themselves. what resources should the government be giving them? its not like upgrading your computer system is going to make this thing stop, right? paying the ransom is all they can do. >> thats right. to give you so...

On it from the beginning. i am joined by pete williams. this is an incredible story. what do we hear about how prepared the company is going forward? >> we learned that the hackers got into colonials data system through a program they thought wasnt used anymore. one that employees can access through vpn. it required only a user name and password, single factor. the company has shut that down. that is one change. we learned new details. colonial discovered at 5:00 a.m. on may 7 that it was hit wi...

Some patients of North Country Healthcare are being notified that their health information may have been improperly accessed as a result of ransomware attack on a vendor used by NCH

Colonial saying the issues are not related to malware, but we still dont know the reason behind these disruptions. of course just a couple of weeks ago, a ransomware attack crippled the companys computer system and caused fuel delivery delays and panic buying in the southeast as many of you remember. this is the second time colonial has had these issues since this cyberattack. still ahead, everybody, what the convening of a grand jury really means in the criminal probe into the trump organizat...

Extent and before a summit. this seems brazen, cheeky, and deliberate. >> thats because its brazen, cheeky, and deliberate. whats going on is a steady escalation of hate. it was just a few weeks ago the colonial pipeline got hit by a russian-based ransomware group and thats what stopped flow up the east coast and set up those lines. what weve also seen, though, is a new tactic by the russians, one in which they get into the supply chain of software thats used by federal agencies, by companies, a...