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Information act, a position also taken by the bush/cheney administration. at one point the secretary whose server running weak and security software joked to office of legal council that the chinese were hacking contact list. weird since i only haveçg gmail wrote in 2011. maybe chinese hacked it and focused on you. two minutes later clinton wrote that aide again. even weirder, i checked and i do have your state but not your gmail, so how did that happen. must be the chinese. those trusted with ...

Office. we were lucky enough to have james rosen with us with all the details. >> aids to president obama say he and clinton only exchanged a few e-mails and they were, quote, mostly nonsubstantive. that, they say, is because obama and clinton mostly conducted business in person or by phone. the white house says presidential communications are not subject to the freedom of information act but these newly released e-mails show that clinton, whose private server relied on weak and outdated securit...

Categories -- potential financial liability and potential reputation liability. heres the deal, were looking at consumer protection laws which protects your information, but there are even more serious laws, pamela, around the storage of financial information. and what i find to be interesting is most people on this web site are actually paying for their membership with a credit card so there are very strict policies in place for how it is that a company is allowed to store your credit card info...

Because of this hackers could crack your e-mail, security firewalls, possibly your mobile phones. developers rushed out patches, companies like amazon, google, yahoo! were all affected so what they tried to do was figure out a way to fix these patches to keep people from being vulnerable and to keep their users safe. >> consumers should definitely be concerned. i mean, this is, like i said, this is one of the nastiest security vulnerabilities weve seen in a long time. i mean, we used to see thes...

>> the clear thing here would be, of course, ashleigh, is there any kind of memory, is there any data that they -- the fbi can recall that shows a turn 12 minutes with programmed in. in other words, that gives you a clear key indication that somehow he rehearsed at home what we all see as this mystery and tragedy thats playing out. >> all right. martin and mitchell, thank you for that. and one last question to you. look, every one of us is effectively somewhat tech savvy today. and we all delete...

Class action lawsuits because of this, and now we know they may have been able to stop the hackers. is target about to see a whole lot more lawsuits? stacey snyder says yes. lisa says no. so why do you say yes? >> because the legal standard is, did you know or you should have known something was going to happen, and that triggers a duty to act. and what happened here is target when the attack was launched, they got an alert in their security software, and what they decided was it was a generic a...

From happening. they could have done something along the lines of making sure every single person had security software to insure conversation were encrypted. sounds like the russian government wants to keep tabs on information passing through the networks through us. >> unbelievable. brett larson, thanks for filling us in. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. president barack obama joined both sides of the aisle for the national prayer breakfast. he talked about his personal faith and a...

Or accessed. critics have complained target hasnt done enough to explain how this breach happened. it is currently facing federal and state investigations and numerous lawsuits from customers. so, a scathing, new report is due out today, taking the government to task, claiming the federal agencies are not prepared to defend their networks against hackers. the report is from the republican staff of the senate homeland security committee. it says that security software has not been updated. and ...

Detailing just how those hackers pulled off one of the biggest data heists ever. >> now with this new information that many other retailers could potentially have been breached, that number could potentially double in the next couple weeks. >> reporter: heres how they did it. according to a cybersecurity firm called eyesight, they used highly sophisticated and nearly undetectable malware thats a computer program that is surreptitiously placed in a system to corrupt point of sale systems. that me...

Detailing just how those hackers pulled off one of the biggest data heists ever. >> now with this new information that many other retailers could potentially have been breached, that number could potentially double in the next couple of weeks. >> reporter: heres how they did it according to a cybersecurity firm called eyesight who has contributed to the investigation. they used highly sophisticated and nearly unprotected malware that is a kartoxa surreptitiously put in, eyesight says many retail...