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Privacy commissioner Ada Chung says leak of 477 people’s personal information mainly due to Consumer Council’s failure to set up multi-step authentication for remote work.

Fidelity National Financial was attacked in a ransom attack, affecting many different services, including LoanCare, one of its subsidiaries.

Ransomware attacks represent the industrialised nature of cybercrime. As long as there is the incentive of a payment we will be locked in a perpetual cycle of attacks.

Sensitive law enforcement information was compromised. joining me now is nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter. what do we know about what happened and what type of data is at risk. >> approximately a week ago there was a ransom attack. sometimes its well look up your computer system. or they exfiltrate data. and that, according to the u.s. marshals is apparently what happened here. the justice department was called in to investigate and in the story reporting with my colleagues, what...

The hackers who stole data from the Davenport School District made a ransom demand, but the district did not pay up, according to district officials.

Hillary clinton, those sort of things. separately though, they robust criminal underground which conducts attack we knew about this from last summer, you might remember. where the ransom attack against the colonial pipes. whenever they need to essentially lean on that criminal underground and use them as a specialized into the or forced to do things that project well beyond their borders. ukraine is kind of the petri dish. it has been for the last ten years of cyberattacks for russia. they are u...

Because they can do anything from just during a minor ransomware attack or a massive ransom attack to turning the power grid off. and that is a possibility as well. fred, how worried are you aboutf that kind of cyber attack on the u.s.? >> you know, im worried about but i also think the russians know that were much better at cyber attacks and they are it if they do that , there will be a devastating counterattack by the united states. and i mean we will know where these attacks came from and con...

Last june joe biden he said he gave them a list on things that were off-limits from cyberattacks including critical infrastructure. apparently he didnt give in long enough list to vladimir putin, but fortunately in this case, this particular cyber attack, there are seven stages in the kill chain as they call it of a cyber attack on this one was fairly immature. it was not nearly so far along as the colonial pipeline ransom attack that actually did shut down that pipeline. this was about two week...