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Finally tonight on wednesdays we continue our conversation with "special report" online. if you havent been there before, join us tonight. we answer your comments directly. last week it was an interesting time reading the creative user names. tiger thw. no t casey. robert 1010 -- oh goodness. >> thats trump for me. i will take that if you dont mind. [ laughter ] hilarious. >> i think he was calling me. >> he was definitely calling you. wait a second. >> he may have been calling charles. sometime...

The infidelity site. >> lets say somebody has a wondering eye and they are in a marriage and they would go to the site and it says we can make an affair possible. hackers hacked into the site and they had the data and were going to put it out there if ashley madison didnt shut down, and fast-forward a month later, a huge dump, e-mails, phone numbers and user names, and now you have a bunch of sites where all you have to do is put in an e-mail and find out if they were on the list. you have to re...

A spokesperson say she is knows the kind of leadership the administration champions and has done work to better the lives of the lgbt community. >> they have done it. hackers made good on their threat to release users private information all stolen from the cheating website ashleymadison.com. lori is here with this. you had to dig deep on this one. >> very, very alarming. we are talking 10 gigabytes worth of data. 30 million accounts leaked. 36 million e-mail addresses. take it with a grain of s...

Security clearance. you give every place you have ever lived, all your members of your family information about your employment history, where you have lived, financial, criminal records in some cases. even user names and passwords have been compromised. we dont know again, which set of numbers those apply to. its a very large number and the total is about 22 million. it appears that the government isnt saying this on the record but everybody is saying privately that this was china. i suppose th...

Federal agency is trying to recover from a massive cyber attack that compromised the records of more than 21 million people including their social security numbers. the attack also exposed information about employment residency and police families finances, criminal records, user names, pass words vl. justice correspondent pete williams joins me from washington. pete, at this point what do we know about the folks who may have been responsible for this? >> the government as a policy matter in gen...

Hacks. how are they getting them in the first place? >> they have been on the under ground network for ages. the older ones. the ones we use very commonly to log on to our email, those often get out and they get loose from us at some point simply by hacking, and what happens is those are sold bought and sold on line in bulk so hackers go and buy these and they try them. >> and very often these sort of -- the side -- side accounts that we use, like a starbuck or like a jc. peney county. you say y...

How do you keep your info safe? >> a tech wreck happening for starbucks this morning. >> this is the app from starbucks and starbucks is quick to say not our fault over this. hackers are getting user names and passwords and going into peoples apps trying them one after another, guessing passwords and going in and buying themselves some gift cards with your app. so if you like me have the reload feature on it, big trouble. because right now, i just added $25. all it takes to add another $25, $50,...

And in light of these new charges against these two federal agents these two federal agents were spearheading the silk road task force for the dea and secret service in baltimore. and they were corrupt allegedly and they were allegedly creating fictitious user names and stealing money and blackmailing dread pirate roberts and instigating murder for hire. there was a lot of corruption coming to light and makes it far more difficult to understand whether ross is or in fact not guilty. i think more...

>> curt shilling became a red sox legend for bravely pitching through a severe ankle injury leading boston to the world series but the bloody sock game pales in comparison to his toughness as a father. last week he sent out a tweet congratulating his daughter being accepted to college and playing softball. brutal obscenitities were directed at his daughter prompting him to post a detailed essay on his blog. tweets with the word rape bloody underwear and pretty much every other defiling word you ...

A disgruntled ex-employee. says an exworker with the code name lena worked security for several years and this person had access to ip addresses, user names, passwords and would be able to take the vast amounts of data. >> were in the business of security intelligence. and i think one needs to take a step back and just look at what actually happened with respect to the time line. and if the movie "the interview" was the driver for this hack why wasnt it part of the initial demand from the attack...