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The guy who may have been a hitman. they searched databases knocked on doors and they found him. his real name was moataz azzeh, or "taz" for short. >> and he said, we need to talk. >> reporter: taz said they had him all wrong. he was no hitman. but they were right about leon. he wanted to get rid of meaghan. >> his main goal was that she not appear in court. whatever means that required that to happen, that was fine with leon, up to killing her. >> reporter: taz said leon gave him $9,980 in cas...

Kurt the cyber guy. we are talking 419 million records over several databases. how did this happen? >> 133 million americans on facebook and expect that. some hacker has your phone number. this is the breach that happened in april 2018 and only recently has the database been found where someone scraped that information often included your user id and phone number along with other information and that was found at a database at a tech company in mexico and also residing on amazon cloud servers. f...

This shooter prior to this shooting? any mentions of red flags? if not, how do investigators now go about digging into his background to try to come up with more on him? >> yeah. so we have not heard there were any red flags that hes someone that was on the radar of authorities, that they knew anything about him. so public records, theyll go through court records, theyll go through traffic stops, things of that nature. and then importantly theyll go through other databases to see if they receive...

They will put together a profile of this person. and of course immediately upon identification, they started running his name through databases, state, local, federal. have we ever encountered this person before. is there a file on him. has he been in chat rooms and blogs that weve been watching or missing. have sources ever record on him. and of course the big question, why was he pulled over at all? was it just a speeding infraction, a taillight out? or did someone report him as dangerous and ...

Loved ones, relatives, co-workers. they will put together a profile of this person. and of course immediately upon identification, they started running his name through databases, state, local, federal. have we ever encountered this person before. is there a file on him. has he been in chat rooms and blogs that weve been watching or missing. have sources ever record on him. and of course the big question, why was he pulled over at all? was it just a speeding infraction, a taillight out? or did s...

Rangers, state troopers that just did this in the el paso shooting. its the same district, the same offices. they know the drill. whats going to happen next? search warrants will be executed at the shooters residence. likely any storage facility he has, any office space he has, interviews will take place for loved ones, relatives, coworkers, they will put together a profile of this person and of course immediately upon his identification, they started running thiz name through data bases, state,...

Is this someone with mental health issues. is this someone that was a grievance collector, that something triggered them today, and they decided to go on this shooting spree. was this planned, are there coconspirators, were the person or people that perpetrated this, were they directed, inspires, were they aspireed to some hateful ideology or anarchy or chaos, anti-government type of thing. all of these things, we dont know the answers yet but these are all the things the government is looking a...

Worried about giving the government too much power in this area: constant surveillance. this is a threat to our 4th amendment rights. >> i think so. i had hearings on this i was the chairman of the oversight committee. americans have a right to privacy. you should not have to think if you are going to be in databases and there will be surveillance on every corner whether its public or private. the supreme court in the jones case ruled 9-0 you cant just place a public surveillance on the bottom o...

Fear foreign hackers may turn to ransom ware. they plan to launch a program in one month that narrowly focuses on protecting voter registration databases and systems ahead of the 2020 presidential election. intelligence officials are concerned that foreign hackers in 2020 not only will target the databases but will attempt to disrupt or destroy the data itself according to current and former u.s. officials. the director of the cyber security infrastructure security agency at the department of ho...

2020 as well. >> and a number of agencies and senior intelligence officials have said that they are doing it as we speak. >> yes. >> robert mueller said as we sit here in his hearing there. and now were getting news from the department of homeland security that they are planning or at least going to try to protect state and local election databases from ransomware attacks, which we have seen a large spate. those havent been connected to any government or any country yet, but this notion that ran...