might have had help, maybe even perhaps have been a spy for the russian security services. for most part these questions have dealt with personal conditions, such as whether the encryption systems are a safeguard against the nsa program. i heard lawmakers saying that steph over the weekend and shaking my head. there s not a scintilla of evidence that is true. the timing is certainly interesting. i think you make a valid point. this is coming after the president s reforms were announced in anticipation of this web chat. if you look at the balance of the data snowden releases, and this is what intelligence officials point to, the the lion share of leaks has dealt with sources and methods and our alliances overseas. there were some interesting comments by the former deputy
stolen, this he don t necessarily believe the hackers will be able to unscramble that data. i ve been speaking to a professional what s known as a white hat hacker who, would with corporations to help their encryption systems. i asked him, should consumers worried? these hackers got away with the pin data albeit scrambled. should people be worried? he s saying to me the hackers in this case would actually have to hack into the payment processor in order to be able to unscramble the data. he says it s possible but it would take highly sophisticated hackers to be able to do that. he s saying it does look a little bit better for target, believe it or not. that s really the issue is sort of the pr problem here to come out in drips and drabs. i no he. really the final thing i think, zain, that will tell us if we re out of the woods here is if there are no reports that customers have had their bank accounts cleaned out. are there any at this point? we have seen some reports of people