once it infects, it encrypts all of your files, locking you out. attackers hold your data hostage until you pay a ransom. typically between 200 and $10,000. most criminals demand payment in bitcoin, a type of anonymous, easy to use online currency. occurrence you pay the ransom, most get their files back. ransomware has been around for years, but the latest strain of the virus called cryptowall is wreaking unprecedented havoc. between last april and june this year, the f.b.i. has received 1,000 criminal complaints costing individuals and u.s. businesses over $18 million in losses. we re making a lot of progress. but like many other types of crimes, we re not there yet. it s still a problem and as i mentioned, we cleared up one and another shows up on the market. reporter: even police departments nationwide are getting hit and paying up. this year a small town outside chicago paid $500 ransom to a
anti-virus. this is essentially holding your data hostage, but you have always warned me that would be the next step. where are we going here? so this particular breach occurred as a result of e-mail addresses and passwords being compromised. that could have happened in one of two ways. either there was a data base in australia somewhere that was taken over that had the cloud or mac or e address. and they were phished. so again they gave up their addresses and that allowed the criminal to basically take over their mobile devices, their iphone and ipad. so if you receive an e-mail you have to be careful you don t respond with your credentials. so a lot of people are getting sort of gadget paranoia. they re thinking maybe not to have these things or use these things as much.
having a missile test is not the way to sit down with the president. he is not going to do it. i can tell you, he can sit there and say all the conditions he wants. until he meets our conditions, we are not sitting down with h him. he plans to introduce legislation early next week that authorizes 28 new ground-based interceptors missile systems. the missile launched this weekend could not have reached the u.s., but that is one of kim jong-un s main goal for his nuclear program. arthel: we will talk more about that later in the newscast. thank you. eric: the fbi and nsa are investigating the cyber attack carried out this weekend on a global scale. hundreds of thousands of computers and some 150 countries were hit by a ransom where vir virus. it holds your data hostage until