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We didn't recover all the money but some of it. yesterday general jack keane told us on this show america has the tools in order to fight back. are we using them appropriately and within enough time, dan? >> that was the good first step to recover the money. let's be clear, it was a cut-out that the criminal hacking group darkside was using to collect the ransom. not as if we went out and targeted the hackers themselves. and this is part of incident response phase. it is in the forensics part of the investigation. we need to do more left of boom. detect the threat before it happens and preempt...

Which he said was the hardest decision he ever had to make although he thought it was in the best interests of the american people. we should note it was a decision he made without a complete understanding of how deeply the ransomware had penetrated his company's systems. the hacking group darkside then supplied a decryption code which he said worked to a degree but not perfectly. then he said he also contacted the fbi within hours of the ransomware attack and was directed to the san francisco office which had already been investigating darkside. those are the people, ayman, who traced the ran...