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The Suffolk legislature has announced the members of a
committee that will investigate how a cyberattack against the county happened.

The panel will also look at how to keep it from happening
again.

Presiding
officer Kevin McCaffrey spoke to News 12 about the committee.

The panel will also look at how to keep it from happening again.

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Let's turn our attention now to our weather as we remain on storm watch because we have a serious storm heading our way. We're over here in the weather center with meteorologist Crystal Ellis. So, Crystal, what do people need to know about the exact timing here for this? Uh, the worst of it's going to be tomorrow night into the evening, late evening into tomorrow. The overnight hours. That's when we're going to see the worst wind gusts and the most widespread heaviest rainfall. But that doesn't mean before then we won't be experience some turbulent weather. So looking at our storm watch, we do have a high wind watch and a flood watch. 2 to 4 inches of rain could see even more than that in localized areas. So that will lead to flooding. You definitely want to try to stay home if you can for tomorrow. The winds also between 25 and 4540 MPH sustained gusting to 55 even 60 MPH for tomorrow. So that actually could lead to dangerous wind, damaging winds and uh down trees down power lines. So you definitely want to be weather aware for tomorrow, as we look into tomorrow afternoon, the winds start to pick up a little bit and we'll have some scattered downpours throughout the area as we step into the afternoon. Those downpours again, wherever they set up, that's where we'll have the most rainfall falling and check out the winds gusting up to 3035 MPH throughout the area. And this is around 4 p.m. and that's not even the worst of it as we keep going on. The future cast, you can see the rain is just training on in. It's continuing to come down in heavy bouts in the, in the red, orange and yellow shades and the wind is not going anywhere as well. In fact, it's going to be increasing as we step into the later hours. So here we are 11 pm, wind gusts 47 MPH in Smithtown, 47 Rocky Point and the rain continues to fall. So it's going to be a pretty serious storm for tomorrow. And then in your overnight hours, this is where we're seeing the worst of the wind gusts 52 in Rocky Point. And again, depending on where these fans set up will be the worst of the flooding potential. Looking at your Monday morning, it's still hanging on the winds eventually will calm down. And so does the rain. However, we will have a if you wrap around showers for Monday morning and blustery conditions for the second half of your Monday. So we are on storm watch Sunday afternoon, Sunday night and into your Monday morning before things begin to calm down, it gets colder, the wind sticks around and it's feeling like much more typical December weather highs in the forties for the rest of the work week. But at least it's quiet.

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Suffolk presiding officer gives update on committee investigating cyberattacks

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the Suffolk Legislature has announced the members of a committee that will investigate how a cyber attack against the county happened. Yeah. The panel will also look at how to keep it from happening ever again. Joining us live right now is presiding Officer Kevin Mccaffrey to talk about this legislator. Mccaffrey. I think talking from a whole lot of Suffolk residents asking the question, how could we be so vulnerable? Who's in charge of that? Yeah. So that's the questions we need answered. And that's the reason for our committee to find out, get in depth answers as to what happened, how it happened and how we can prevent it from happening in the future. And we understand that the committee will have subpoena powers. So who will you be looking to call in for testimony? Well, I think the first thing we're gonna look at is the report. We expect to get a report of the forensic evidence that was collected during, during the data breach. We hired a company to go out and do that for us. As soon as that report is released, we expect to be able to get a clearer picture of where we need to dig into any indication on the timeline of when that report will be released. Well, I'm hoping for weeks that's what we've been been told and we expect the committee to meet shortly after the first of the year to start setting up our rules and and and setting up our criteria for our the investigation. I know day by day we're finding out more and more information as as you and your committee hope to find out. We've heard about some things getting leaked. Such as workers Social Security numbers. Is there more to come about? Anything else being leaked and for the protection of workers or residents were one of those Social Security numbers was mine. So so so we're all in this and we're really going through each server piece by piece to find out exactly what was in there. So now the six, all six members of the committee, they were announced yesterday what went into deciding who will make up this committee? We had we want to make it bipartisan that was for sure. So we had we made sure that we had people on on either side from the republicans and the democrats were on there. We made sure that was it. And we tried to pick some Anthony Piccirillo has done a great job for us in terms of leadership and we want to give an opportunity to lead his committee. He's ahead of government operations and technology. So we thought it was important that he be the chair of this committee as well. Last question. And if you can make it quick, will there possibly be ramifications punishment? Something that we could see that could happen to an organization or a person. We expect to hold everybody accountable for this collection. So that's that's that's the answer legislator. Mccaffrey. Thanks so much for joining us and answering these important questions to a whole lot of Suffolk residents and yourself as well. Very good. Thank you for having me, Alright.

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