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Saying over and over to folks here, manage your expectations. this going to take a lot of time. a close call with a category 5 hurricane here. >> ron mott, thanks very much. well continue to cover the damage in the caribbean as well. new breaking news this hour on equifax. the huge cyber security breach. seven attorney generals filing lawsuits or opening criminal investigations, and lawmakers on the hill invited the companys ceo to testify. details on that on the other side. a lot of money on ...

You individually and systemically. to you, a risk of deputy theft. i think the even bigger problem were just now coming to grips with is that this is going to be a trove of information to people about how to deanonymize people and reidentify them. so much of our security is based upon personal information. questions like, where were you born? whats your mothers maiden name? all of that is possibly retrievable from large-scale breaches like equifax, home depot, target -- >> all the good security ...

Their job was to collect all of the possibly collectible sensitive information about you. especially financial information, and use that to generate credit scores. something were all familiar with. so this is kind of like fort knox getting knocked over and all the gold going out the door. why goldfinger went after fort knox in the bond movies. >> let me ask you something. you wrote a smart article that i had trouble parsing because i just dont live in this world and know it that well, but you se...

Possibility that may actually be a true story and may very well be the case that the senior executives were just not paying enough attention to cyber security. lots of boards in lots of major companies are just now coming to grips with the idea that they have an exposure, a risk exposure, in cyber security in the same way they have skoexposs could commodity price changes or h.r. problems. a reality today. >> unbelievable to me. first, lets show viewers what has been breached. the type of informa...

For more on this im joined by paul rosenzweig, defector of a homeland security consulting company and served as the deputy assistant secretary for policy in the department of homeland security. hes authored several books on cyber security as well as a new op-ed in scientific america entitled "the equifax hack: bad for them, worse for us." ball, before i get to the danger, the exposure that this has led to for so many, tens of millions. more than 100 million americans, i want to get to one fact. ...

News breaking news hour on the massive cyber security breach at equifax. right now seven attorneys general have sued or opened investigations into the breach that likely affected 143 million people. meanwhile, virginia senator mark warner has asked the federal trade commission to investigate what happened and the chair of the house energy and commerce committee called on the ceo of equifax, richard smith, to testify on the hill in three weeks. all of this comes one day after 36 senators called o...

And i think i found that on "the journal." not exactly sure, but a widely used still. the vulnerabilities known three, four years. the u.s. government file add report on those in 2014 and apache has gone to the trouble of developing the vulnerable patches required. just seems as though equifax wasnt paying attention. >> look, all much easier if equifax would come clean fast and tell us all what happened. its our information out there. i know ive been breached, for instance, and got an e-mail fro...