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THE NUMBER OF PUBLIC SPACE CCTV CAMERAS IN WASHINGTON DC THAT WERE INFECTED WITH RANSOMWARE. Just one week before President Trump’s inaugurati­on was set to take place there in January, hackers attacked the District of Columbia’s closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillan­ce system and managed to compromise 70% of police DVRs. The ransomware infected 123 of 187 network video recorders, each of which controlled up to four CCTVs, rendering them inoperable for 3 days between the 12th and 15th of January. The hack was discovered when police noticed four devices were not recording, forcing the city to wipe clean all the affected IT systems. Officials have confirmed that no ransom was paid.

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