Im john berman. Those stories and more right now this hour. Two major stories about computer hackers. One involving criminals who can get into your home computer. The other is an historic case of cyberespionage. Attorney general eric holder announcing for the first time the u. S. Filed charges against Chinese Military officers. Theyre accused of hacking into several major u. S. Companies to steal their secrets. This case should serve as a wakeup call to the seriousness of the ongoing cyberthreat. These criminal charges represent a Ground Breaking step forward in addressing that threat. Well talk about the personal computer hacking story in just a moment. First, evan perez is here. Lets talk about this case with china. Historic to say the least. Thats right. Its the first time that the u. S. Has ever charged Chinese Government officials with hacking. They are talking about the secretive unit of the pla, the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army thats based in shanghai and that specializes in stealing secrets from u. S. Companies. This is something the u. S. Says is costing billions of dollars to the u. S. Economy talking about jobs at risk here and this is a big deal because chinese for years have been saying give us proof. So now we have the proof. Talk about how prosecution will work. You talk about china and the United States. How widespread is all of this . The u. S. Says this is a major problem. Chinese are the number one spies on u. S. Soil now. This is after the cold war when we were most worried about the russians and now this is about economic espionage and getting an advantage in their economy to try to steal stuff from the United States to try to advance Chinese Companies and they say this is something that is just the beginning. Chinese have been saying show us the proof. Today the United States is showing the proof. Any response . We havent heard from the chinese. The u. S. Is giving examples. Westinghouse big name brand u. S. Companies that are very High Tech Companies that are doing business in china and around the world. Could be serious ripple effects here. We want to turn to another story. The fbi and police in several countries are taking down dozens of alleged cybercriminals. Were talking about people who break into your home computer through your computer and then use your webcam and your keyboard against you. They do it with a Computer Program called blackshade that comes as an innocent email. Always does, right. It invites you to open it. Evan perez is also covering this joined by lori siegel covering the howto angle this. Lets start with the arrest. Who is the fbi after here . The fbi and police and 17 countries in europe and canada went over 100 people. They did about 300 searches all over europe and canada and basically the fbi says that these guys have been hacking into your computers and doing bank fraud and extorting peoples money from them and we have a bit of an explanation of the fbi who tells us a little bit about how this goes down. Blackshades can recover your passwords and all of your access credentials so when you believe is the secure entry into a bank website has been hijacked if you will by a cyber criminal. The key word there is hijacked. Many times people dont even know their computers have been infected. How are you supposed to know . How on earth are you supposed to know that youve become victimized by Something Like this if it is happening in the shadow of the cyberworld . Its really difficult to know. Whats so scary about this is that you could be hijacked you would have no idea someone could remotely turn on your webcam and as you type key strokes look and capture your bank account information. Theres also a tactic that these hackers use called social engineering to a point where you think dont click on a random link. Thats how they install malware on their computer. Theyll use social engineering so find out a bit about you and target an email to you or facebook message or something you might trust or want to click on. Once you click on it its on your computer. Little idea its even there and you have stuff happen where we look at what happened to miss teen usa which was pretty awful and thats how this really happens. Thats outrageous what happened to miss teen usa. She was being looked at. Her webcam was spying on her without her knowing. I mean i dont understand the technology. I dont understand how people can do that to these machines. Its essentially malware. Its basic. Whats scary is Something Like 40 and people are buying this on the dark web and its very easy to do. Its literally as easy as downloading this and getting access to this software and targeting other users. The technology is a bit like that remote administrative tool that even some of the Tech Companies use if they want to remotely access your computer from home. Similar technology. Similar software with legitimate uses where people want to be at home and get to their computer at work or at work get to their computer at home. Thats one of the legitimate uses. This takes a dark turn. This takes a different turn. Thee are sophisticated. Employees would help problem solve if you downloaded software and it wouldnt work right against your victims, they had people that could help you do that. What do i do to avoid this besides never opening an attachment ever . Do not click on anything you dont know the source. Update your Antivirus Software on your computer. Be very careful about connecting to wifi in general. I was at a hacking conference. Someone showed me how they can hack traffic lights by exploitingexploit ing wifi. Thats a tough one. I get free wifi wherever i can. Now he realize if its free maybe not worth it. Your debut this hour. Thank you both for being here on our program. Lets look at her headlines making news this hour. The first case of a deadly virus called mers middle east respiratory syndrome transmitted inside the United States. An illinois man contracted the virus after meeting with the first person infected with the deadly virus in the u. S. That patient got mers following a trip to saudi arabia. Health Officials Say the illinois man contracted the virus after face to face contact. A 40minute meeting but that hes not sick nor has he been hospitalized. Malaysian airlines say they will not abandon the families. In a statement the airline argues these foreign lawyers have directed that mas cease from any further direct communication. As for family members without legal representation your airline has been in contact with them via the Family Support center. How about this . A california firefighter took this selfie in an effort to show his wife he was okay. That photo went viral fast. In a couple hours more than 30,000 people liked it on facebook. The good news is also crews are still fighting those fires in Southern California but heres the good news. Theyre getting a bit of a break from better milder and cooler weather. Lots of people who had to evacuate are now back in their homes. Thats good news there. New allegations about deadly wait lists at va hospitals. First this phoenix hospital and now a whistle blowing doctor says veterans with serious heart conditions brain tumors waited months for care at the albuquerque va hospital. Well speak live to our own Investigative Reporter who was the first to expose wait list fraud at va hospitals. Still ahead, the buzz over the billboard awards. Michael jackson stealing the show with a performance of his latest single. That sounds crazy, right . Hes been dead for five years. How did this all work . Well show you. Huh, 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know that game show hosts should only host game shows . Samantha, do you take kevin as your lawfully wedded husband. Or would you rather have a new caaaaaar say hello to the seasons hottest convertible. Ohhh. And say goodbye to samantha. [ male announcer ] geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more. The white house says president obama is madder than hell about reports of treatment delays at hospitals serving veterans but was the president warned years earlier of the deadly practice . A the Washington Times report says Obama Administration did receive clear notice even before mr. Obama took office. Drew griffin has been way out in front of this story. He was the first to expose the disturbing allegations at several va hospitals reporting that at least 40 veterans died while waiting for care in phoenix. Drew joins us now from atlanta. Talk about this the Washington Times story first. That president obama and his team was briefed before he even took office. Reporter it was transition time. He was trying to learn about problems he was going to inherentinherit and take over as president. This was one of them specifically telling staff that the wait time data is unreliable. What is a little bit startling about that Washington Times report to me is everyone should have known that decade ago. Thats when the Government Accountability office first began sounding the alarm that the data that they were getting from the va on these wait times was completely unreliable and that warning has been sounded year after year after year by their Health Director there. I want to bring up one more point. The president in 2007 senator barack obama, gave a speech to the vfw in which he specifically addressed these wait times. No veteran should have to fill out a 23page claim to get care or wait months or years to get an appointment at the va. He vowed to fix this back in 2007. Apparently was briefed on it again in 2008. And if hes been watching our reports or getting the Inspector General reports, its hard to believe everybody in washington didnt know this was going on. And then add to this. You talk about sounding the call and theres another story from the daily beast reporting allegations of another hospital with these secret wait lists that weve been talking. This one in albuquerque, new mexico. One of the doctors allege that veterans with serious heart disease, even brain tumors waited months for care. Do you have a sense of just how widespread and how systemic this is . This is what we know right now. In ten different states there are allegations and or Inspector General reports going out and looking into wait list problems denied delayed care which led to adverse results adverse medical results. We know of four states where delays in care led to deaths. We are getting tips now and whistleblowers coming faster than we can check out. I just got one from a doctor saying a delay in care in one of these hospitals caused a man to get his leg amputated. A diabetic patient. A doctor recommended immediate procedure being done on this persons foot. He had to wait five months. Infection spread and his leg was gone. Were getting those tips from all over the country because one doctor in phoenix was brave enough to come forward and sound the alarm on this and that kind of although its been reported out there for a long time his courage to come forward and talk about this alleged secret list gave many others in the va system the courage to come forward with their information as well. Drew griffin, thanks so much for being with us. As we said you were way out in front of this. Cutting edge of reporting here thats causing these reports to come in and hopefully will help cause serious reform in this system so veterans get the care they need. Thats the important thing we want to make sure they get the care they need. How frustrating. I thought how frustrating for doctors that say this is what they need. Im here to provide care and their hands or tied in many cases. Infuriating. 16 minutes after the hour. Then theres this. Back from beyond the grave. How Michael Jackson moon walked through the billboard awards with a stunning and shall we say slightly shocking performance. You, my friend are a master of diversification. Who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche . The same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. Its a masterpiece. Thanks. Clearly you are type e. You made it phil. Welcome home. Now whats our strategy with the fondue . Diversifying your portfolio . 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Thats why were talking about it. If you look at that right there look at that on the screen. It puts you in a trance looking at it. The moves were very accurate looking. The performance was produced by michaels estate. If you saw the performance, he brought a lot of tears to fans in the audience. Social media reaction was mixed. I was looking at it last night and some people were really expressing shock at how lifelike they thought this looked and others said it was disrespectful and distasteful and we should let him rest in peace. Can i say, the cool versus creepy argument having to do with Michael Jackson, excuse me for saying that isnt that a summation of the last 20 years of his life . There are a lot of questions about this type of thing in general. How did they pull this out . Send emails to john berman. Talk to me about how they pulled it off. It looks more sophisticated. Yeah this one was pretty sophisticated. They are not releasing all of the details. They are keeping a bit of mystery there. If you hear he was performing his new hit slave to the rhythm. This debuted last week at number one in 50 countries, this new album of his. I dont know all of the details but according to the shows hoe producer it was the result of six months of filming and planning. They brought in longtime associates of Michael Jacksons to choreograph the hologram and other dancers. They did do a lot. They took a lot of time on it as well. While we have you, i want to talk about Something Else making headlines. Michael sams reality show on own. Not happening now. What happened here . I dont know if we had anything to do with this guys. It wasnt too long after we had a pretty spirited debate on friday whether he should or shouldnt do this series or reality show that the Oprah Winfrey network announced it would postpone the series. They said they did not want to hurt michael sams chances of making it on the rams which is some of the argument that we were presenting on friday. The network said that postponing the project in their words would give michael the best opportunity to achieve his dream of making the team. Michael sams agent also released a statement saying the delay will allow him to have total focus on football which is what we heard him say from the beginning that he wanted to do and ensure there would be no distractions to his teammates. In the reporting over the weekend from various media outlets, i did see where the rams said they didnt even know about this series before it was announced. In a meeting with the team both sides decided, you know what . Lets back off. Probably because the rams said slow down. Make the team and film whatever you want. Robin roberts was on over the weekend with reliable sources and talked about the issue with michael sam and kiss when he was drafted. Lets listen to what robin had to say. What was he supposed to do . Shake his hand . Really. I think it was one of those moments also when you saw it happen it was spontaneous. It was natural. So quick. When you see the picture it seems like its different than what occurred. That doesnt matter. It doesnt matter. Hes happy like every other young man was happy. Hes happy. He has that moment. Now he can concentrate on playing football and making a team and well see what happens next. Can i just say im a proud missouri tiger so i hope he becomes rookie of the year in my unbiassed opinion. We hope so too. Not doing the video will help. This seems like one of those backtracks that makes sense, dont you think . Absolutely. Nischelle turner, always great to see you. Please co