He proved the Columbus data leak hurts the public. Now, the city has silenced him 

Right. Punish the whistleblower who exposed the mayor's lies The mayor either knew the data was out there or the city has the most icompetent IT department in the country. I think its more likely the mayor lied. Where is the lawsuit against him? How does that attorney sleep at night?

"To protect our asses...I mean public safety"

City denies any problem, gets exposed by an expert, uses the court to silence the expert to intimidate anyone from exposing their lies. Sounds like typical government strategy to me.

They act like he’s the only one who can access this information and make it public😂

Awesome reporting and thank you for holding the city's counsel to the proverbial fire. This is a great example of why local news reporting is so important .

Sounds like some salty politicians who are actually responsible. 🙄

How about every Columbus citizen file lawsuit against the city

We fucked up we dont want the public to know..

Mayor Ginther and Attorney Klein need to both resign and the Judge who granted the TRO. This is exactly about freedom of speech!!!!!!!!!!!!

He showed it to the news when your city wouldn't do anything about it.

The city is apparently trying to silence the guy because he was embarrassing them. It's time for the Mayor to answer some questions.

This Mayor is full of shhhh.

That "judge" needs to be removed.

How much was slipped to judge Noble under her robe to violate his 1st Amendment rights?

So can all those people sue the city over this?

Shame on the city

Name the judge.

"The data was not valuable..." _Then why was it stolen???_ "It was encrypted." _And that means diddly-squat!_

How about trying to track down and punish the hackers instead of the good citizen? The City Attorney and the Judge should be fired.

🤣🤣🤣 Idiocracy is a documentary folks.

Hire this man.

Become ungovernable! These people are completely incompetent.

That is called Prior Restraint. And the judge’s ruling is a conflict of interest. Why we need to stop prosecutor from becoming judges .

Everything the city has done and said exposes their universal ignorance of digital information.

Total city goobs.

Like I said when you interviewed me, they are liars and aren't doing right by anyone.

The data was obviously not encrypted, so the city was not being truthful about that. What else are they not being truthful about?

Elections have consequences, folks. Vote for justice, not cover ups.

It is not illegal to download leaked data. If you download it you will commit a crime if you DISTEIBUTE it. There are laws about this. The data is not illegal nor is obtaining it. Or talking about it. Unless you distribute the specifics of things like bank acc info. This guy basically got arrested over Metadata.

Wow That judge seems stupid or else purposely obtuse

Has the city said that the FBI is looking into the cause of the data breach and the city has fixed its problem? Might be obvious but so far we only hear about the city trying to stop the messenger.

Its never the sin that gets you, its the coverup.

Every single person in city hall that knew about this but said nothing, should be in prison.

Like Phil Collins sa lys "Sue Sue Sue the City-oh!" Columbus is a joke!

So the city is going after the whistleblower . . . It should be the other way around!

Y'all need to sue the city and lock your credit reports. Fuck the Experian credit monitoring, it's useless. Just lock your report with all credit reporting companies.

Time to look up the judge and hold her accountable.

This is like suing children for downloading music rather than taking down the ppl providing the service. And then not providing a substitute service and continuing to attack the victims and citizens

Aren’t there laws about punishing whistleblowers?

Wild to sue the guy for negligence and invasion of privacy when that's exactly what they are doing.😢

Oh yea suing the whistleblower won't backfire massively.

I know why...

Another stupid incompetent judge that doesn't know the law.

It is crazy how a cybersecurity expert looks exactly like you would think he does.

If the city or police department was negligent, the only thing they would have done when he reported the breach was to bury it and cover up. Going to the media was the only way to ensure that the breach was acknowledged and addressed.

There should be public alarm, if there is sensitive information out there and the city is doing nothing to stop it. The expert should be covered under the good samaritan laws for telling law enforcement that he found their stolen information online. He was not seeking to profit from the information in any way.

Remember not to retain judge Andrea Noble.

The city should be ashamed of how they handled this entire situation

2 years of monitoring. When the stolen data is used in 4 years, the cost of monitoring would have shifted to the persons, and the credit reporting agencies would have profited from the "service." Congress should mandate the CR bureaus email the person when the CRB is used to grant credit at NO cost to the person. End the cycle of $$ stealing. Except, congress in their pocket and lobbyists will continue business as usual

Sue the friggin city into bankruptcy, Any persons private info gets out, then you have been HARMED by the city period.

Yo, Attorney… there is NO requirement for anyone to tell you anything directly. This person has tried to reach out to you, and no one responded. The lodge appears to have a problem with working with the city and then ruling for that same city. This whole episode appears to be a case of trying to cover their a$$es.

Ridiculous.That's like a restraining order forbidding one person to read a certain book.

SLAP suit

remember, politics and media go hand and hand.. others know this, others are in the dark

Just shameful, how dare that spineless city atty, corrupt judge, and atrocious chief of police blame their negligence on Mr. Goodwolf. Fantastic reporting channel 4! Don't let them sweep this under the rug!

I’m guessing they would not pass a CJIS audit … yikes

Nobel is Dishonorable

Don't want to get a restraining order from the city? Pretty simple solution actually..... STOP BEING HONEST, STOP CARING FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN. Be more like the city. Screw the people over and then blame someone else for what you did.

Talk. ---- 'em. 1st amendment, baby.

Crooked local government officials.

Does this mean I should stop downloading them as well? Enquiring minds want to know.

Please talk about the disabled mother with life threatening conditions she is right now facing abused by the sherrif of licking county the went to her house without warrants to threat her she have a baby with serious health issues the right now have permanent damaged because job and family services leak her information about the baby job and family services licking county sherrif and Mike dewine he promised her he is gonna help her and now ignored her this mom is dying please talk about her case

It's officially called CYA: Cover Your Arse. It's a standard technique used in business and government to obfuscate your mistakes and silence further inquiry.

I mean, they can't tro us all. 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

Not only police, but fire and ems data was taken also….

How is it protected public safety when it already out there on the dark web doesn't make any sense as he not the only security researcher with the data doing there own research.

Price:30 BTC, about $1,745,730. If you are paying this price for the data, you are not a child. Is the city trying to buy back their citizens data? If they had spent a million on security this hacking may not have happened.

I watch these channels to learn how to speak English. what do you think

This guy didn't have to say a thing about what he found. The city doing this will just have people not care. City acts sane way when their cops caught on video violating peoples rights and excessive force

Streisand effect

Oh yeah, credit monitoring will make everything better! WRING. Regardless of this breach, people need to freeze their credit reports as a standard precaution.

Lol, what is the city doing to get that information off the dark web? Its free for all to see.

Yikes. Sounds like a lot of people were gonna lose their jobs. Oh well; time to get them out with votes.

This restraining order is as about a dumb as the one where a state Missouri accused reporter of hacking when told them the states site has security flaw. Seems city Columbus about accusing this guy of same thing. City Columbus is liable for this breach. The ship has sailed on this already.

Sabersecurity! Oosp!😂

Who you elect has consequences. Good and bad perhaps. Look at who the collective elective elected, and how they behave. Don't complain about those you vote for...

incompetence all the way up.

Look at the downloaded data, and look for the judges family member, or someone the judge "did a favor for" in the past. and look and see if there may be a reason the judge doesn't want the info being out in the public. It would not surprise me if the Judge is trying to cover up their criminal history or involvement in it.

Disturbing to you? How about the people YOU put at risk? That is what you should be worried about.

Thorted the attack but yet they have data leaked? That doesn't make sense, either they got hacked and leaked data or they didn't. I bet they never even reached out to a security company or even reported it.

A liberal mayor was lieing? I'm shocked.

It's his own fault for trying to help government. Government doesn't want our help, it wants someone to blame.

Idiocracy

Dump to wikileaks

Spirit gonna f up the judge trying cover up truth !!!

If the federal government or a corporation loses your data gets hacked that data stolen no matter what they are not responsible no accountability no consequences no jail no charges nothing. All they have to do is pay for your free credit monitoring, and if you up for this free credit monitoring you’re signing up through a third-party which is more than likely the corporation that “lost” your data or person information in the first place.

Counter sue

Is that windows subsystem for Linux. Definitely looks like Ubuntu.

Class action?

😂

Does anybody expect anything different from a Democrat ran city?

So, let’s get this straight, a guy helps out the news report on the breech of the public’s private information and the CITY has logged a request TO STOP this work because it was UNCOMFORTABLE TO THEIR NARRATIVE!! 🫵🤡💯💩💩💩💩💥👊🤣💥👌😁