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THOMAS: "Martha, I think this was the week where hacking went from an issue that was the stuff of science fiction and movies and people being a little bit annoyed, to a moment of awakening because people could not get gas, millions of them could not go to a gas station, and the reason was that a group of criminals used software developed by Russians that essentially hacked into Colonial Pipeline's computers, allowing them to steal data and also, according to our sources, potentially allowing them to lock up those computers so that the company itself could not use them. So that company was under enormous pressure to pay a ransom that we are told that was in the low millions. Now, we don't know all the details of it, and there are various ways and cut-outs that this could have been done. But I can tell you that my law enforcement sources are stunned at the level of the increase in ransomware attacks, a 300 percent increase in the last year, worth $350 million to be paid."