Why Was the WannaCry Attack Such a Big Deal?

Published on May 31, 2017
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! On Friday, May 12th, 2017, the ransomware program WannaCry started spreading to computers all over the world at an alarming rate. A couple days later, it was basically completely contained with very little damage done. So what happened?

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