one of the hottest issues around. and what you have here is an allegation that the russian government is actually colluding with criminals to get access to this information. >> yeah. >> reporter: this is really significant and a reason why there's been so much concern about the dnc hack, et cetera, we are seeing intrusion into americans lives but around the world trying to figure out who they are, what they're doing, whether there's compromising information about them and when you see this kind of cooperation when a state actor and a criminal that's something we should all be worried about. >> how do the fex olks at the f actually trace the hacks like this one? >> reporter: there are a variety of different ways, there are sort of forensic footprints traced to identify where the hacks are coming from, sometimes also they have human sources that may give them information