In today's news roundup, the US government and other governments and companies around the world struggle to understand the damage from a massive computer attack, and Sesame Street creates special Muppets to help Rohingya refugee children.
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The computer systems of local governments, school districts, and businesses are being targeted more often by criminals, who lock the computer files, and refuse to unlock them until they are paid.
Around 10,000 computers belonging to the city of Baltimore have been taken over and made useless by a group demanding money in exchange for fixing the computers.
Thieves may have stolen almost $20 million from banks in Mexico. It looks like the thieves found a way to steal the money using computers.
For over a week, the City of Atlanta's computer systems have been under attack. The computer files have been taken over by criminals who want over $50,000 to allow the computers to work again.