Episode
60 Minutes: Ransomware, Inside the Epidemic, Tim Green
Overview
How cybercriminals hold data hostage... and why the best solution is often paying a ransom. Then, who's responsible for the opioid epidemic? Doctors or pharmaceutical companies? And, Tim Green: Coping with the ALS he thinks was caused by the game he loves
Details
- Series
- 60 Minutes
- Season
- Season 51
- Episode
- Episode 47
- Air date
- 2019-08-25
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Ransomware, Inside the Epidemic, Tim Green is Episode 47 in Season 51 of 60 Minutes. It aired on 2019-08-25. The runtime is 44 min.
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