A three-hour shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange on July 8, the same day that a network failure halted all United Airlines flights in the U.S., had people across the country thinking one thing: cyber attack. It wasn't, but the possibility is always on the mind of Austin Berglas, who started the FBI's New York cybercrime unit in 2009 and worked on probes into last year's breach at JPMorgan Chase and the Silk Road drug market. Berglas says he helped New York City agencies to prepare for an Armageddon scenario in which the Nasdaq exchange, the subway system, and Con Edison go offline at the same time. "There's going to be mass panic, people are going to think it's a terrorist attack, people are going to think it's another 9/11 event," he says. "You have to get folks stranded in a subway in the middle of tubes or people stuck in buildings."
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