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We've been warned the FBI director saying recent cyber attacks are posing a 9-11-like challenge to the nation.

Could pipeline and meatpacking hack attacks be just the beginning?

Two former directors of national intelligence will join me to discuss the threat.

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Welcome to the lead, everyone. I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with our tech lead and the plague hitting businesses across the country and around the world.

Foreign hackers planting ransomware, that's malicious software that takes control of a computer network until the victim pays a hefty ransom.

Now here in the United States these hacks have led to gas shortages and meat production plants being shut down.

One study shows there were more than 15,000 ransomware attacks last year alone in the United States.

The FBI director is now comparing this challenge to what the country faced in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

Telling the Wall Street Journal there is a quote shared responsibility across the government and private sector to stop it.

The FBI director raised comments add, an urgency underscoring the serious national security threat just yesterday.

The White House issued an open letter to companies across the nation with a simple message that they at the White House cannot do it alone.

And as CNN's Alex Marquardt reports, the Justice Department has signaled it plans to treat these cyber attacks more like terrorism moving forward.

The cyber threats against the United States have grown so much it's like dealing with terrorism after 9-11.

That urgent message from the head of the FBI Chris Ray today adding his voice to the alarm being sounded by the Biden administration over the growing ransomware attacks here and around the world.

There are a lot of parallels Ray told the Wall Street Journal. The scale of this problem is one that I think the country has to come to terms with.

Before long we are worried that some people will get hurt especially when we consider all these incidents that are affecting health care.

Health care schools and most recently the colonial pipeline and JBS foods which is the biggest meat producer in the world.

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