Flooding is picking up cars, carrying them away. Rescuers had to move quickly on this. Well show you more of this dramatic scene ahead. Hello, everyone. Good to see you on this wednesday. Those stories and so many more at this hour. How is this for a headline . 1. 2 billion passwords stolen, not just passwords but user names as well and not just stolen by anyone but stolen by a russian gang. Happy wednesday, everybody. Lets get beyond the headline a little bit. It is possibly the biggest heist of stolen Digital Credentials in history. I want to turn to our cnn money tech correspondent lori segall and aholex holden. You both are at, conveniently enough, a hacker security conference, so you are the two people to talk to about this very issue t al. Alex, it was your company that uncovered this breach. How did that happen . My company, hold securities, works on behalf of our clients and scours the internet trying to find where the hackers kotal about sharing stolen information. This is what we do and we know that this particular gang is doing some nefarious activities in very high volumes. So, lori, im still a little confused here. We hear 1. 2 billion user names and passwords. Thats a lot. It seems that either im affected by it. Youre affected by it. Hes affected by it. So what does this exactly mean and what are these russian gang members doing with these passwords . What this means, first of all, everyone should be changing their passwords. We need to take more safety p precautions. Apparently right now theyre using this for fishing attacks. You might get something for a weight loss pill that they click on and then they have your information and they collects a fee. Where this gets scary is if they start using this information and selling it on this black market, this dark web, where they sell your information. People can take your email address, they can take your user name and passwords and figure out a lot about you and this is where you face things like Identity Theft. I will say we are at this conference where this is the kind of thing thats talked about. You bring together the security researchers, these hackers, who oftentimes find these vulnerabilities that Big Companies ignore to a degree and security researchers oftentimes i like to joke that they have these skills like batman. They are use their hacking skills for good or bad. The ones who use it for good go to the companies and say i want you to fix this and oftentimes the companies ignore it and thats a problem. Heres the problem that i have with this. The websites, they say from fortune 500 companies to small websites. That doesnt help me as a consumer much to know, alex, that if i went to one of those websites am i potentially a victim, could i have been targeted. How are folks to know that we have been hacked . Absolutely. What we are trying to do is create the way for the individuals and the companies to communicate back to us and ask if they have been compromised. Its a very difficult task for us to reach out to half a billion email addresses that were affected. Its just an impossible task. So we are asking for the companies and individuals to come to us and we will be able to answer that question for them once we authenticate who these people are and make sure they are asking questions about their email addresses or websites. I read in the new york times, lori, that these gang members, these mobsters, are also stealing information from people in russia. Its not like theyre just picking on us or countries outside russia. So what do we do other than, as you suggest, hire some of these bad hackers and make them Design Systems that cant be hacked . I think we need to call on our companies to do a little better. You should be changing your passwords, sent up authentication where you have to go through a couple steps. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but we were just talking and he said a lot of these fortune 500 websites, a lot of these companies, the vulnerab s vulnerabilities are out there. We need to operate with caution. Were reaching a brink where we need to, as consumers, call on our companies to do a better job protecting us. If this is the case, this has gone on a couple years with all of this information stolen and it could be used even for worse than these spamming attacks. Were talking Identity Thefts. Thats why the importance of these Convention Like the one youre attending. Thank you so much for letting us know about your company uncovering this breach. I think what youve learned here is john berman is awesome isnt going to work on your passwords anymore. John berman is awesome 1 or exclamation point. The point is we have put some notes online for you if you want to do yourself a favor and protect yourself from becoming a victim of cyber crime. You can go to our website i believe, cnn. Theres actually a quiz called the can you outsmart a hacker. Im guessing i cant. You can take it at cnnmoney. Com. Some other news were watching this morning, the pursuit of a longterm truce is under way. Palestinians are meeting with egyptian officers right now in cairo, egypt serving as the gobetween. The two sides have no plans to meet facetoface. The u. S. State Department Also sending a moderator for these talks. Egypt trying to extend the ceasefire until monday. The current one is set to expire friday. More ahead. Someone is leaking sensitive u. S. Secrets. This time its not Edward Snowden. An article on the website intercept sites government documents dated after snowden went into exile in russia. These newer documents detail an explosive growth in databases that track terror suspects. The u. S. Is pursuing the source of that leak. This is another story well follow a little more in depth later on in the show. I want to show you some drama playing out on a nevada highway. The rain, so much of it which well show you, it turned there was a lot of flooding, swept some cars away. As of now i think youll have to take my word for it. Look out get out get out get out get out a group of airmen pulled that women out as another car swept toward her. One of the men who was doing the rescuing had to be rescued himself. The amazing thing here is that no one was hurt. People think i can go through, its not that deep, but the force of that water is nothing to be reckoned with. Its such a shock to see that near las vegas which is known to be dry. I want to show you another incredible video from perth, australia. Nischelle turner will never get on a train after this. A man slipped and fell between the train and the platform. His fellow passengers came to his rescue. They got off the train. Look at this. They pushed on it. They were able to tilt it just enough for him to wiggle free. The identity of the lucky man is still a mystery. The video has gone viral. What a love about this, they push it, a brief moment of celebration, they get on the train and carry on only 15 minutes behind schedule. Amazing. How did a gunman manage to kill a u. S. General inside a Security MilitaryTraining Facility . Was this an inside job . We have new details coming up. Also, what really happened to Bowe Bergdahl that day in 2009 when he fell into taliban hands . Today he faces the chief investigator who has a lot of questions for bergdahl. Thank ythank you for defendiyour sacrifice. And thank you for your bravery. Thank you colonel. Thank you daddy. Military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa Auto Insurance can be one of them. If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. We are getting new details on the brazen attack that killed a major general, Harold Greene in afghanistan. He was gunned down yesterday add a military Training Facility. He became the most senior u. S. Officer to be filled since 9 11. Authorities say they think it was an afghan soldier who was the gunman. I want to bring in pentagon correspondent barbara starr. This is the very definition of an insider attack. It really is. By all accounts what they have learned so far is general greene and a number of other u. S. Troops, other military personnel, had gone to the facility. They were standing outside a building when suddenly the gunman opened up from inside another nearby building. So we dont know even at this point if his security personnel, if anybody was even able to return fire. By all accounts, it was a man in an Afghan Military uniform. They believe he had some considerable time of experience with the Afghan Military. He had been through all the security checks, all the vetting and this still happened. I think its really going to the challenge that the u. S. Continues to have even though theyve brought the number of attacks down, really the challenge they have with insider attacks. Especially when you talk about the drawdown of u. S. Troops there. Lets talk about the fact that weve seen that number decline. I think we have some data to support it. Talk about that. Do we know any reason why, if they maybe put new measures in place. You can see right there the numbers have come down. Some of it is they believe because they put some security measures in place. Troops generally now even when theyre inside buildings they will have their weapons with them. Theyll be much more watchful. They have a program called guardian angel, one person assigned to stand back and keep watch over everybody else, these sorts of things. But when you look at it, its still very difficult to determine. I think we also have some data to show about what they think the causes of these insider attacks have been. If you look at some of them, yes, some of them they determined that people are taliban infiltrators, some they just dont know what the motive is. Some is combat stress. About onethird of the time of these cases that they investigate, theyre never able to determine what leads these afghan troops to go ahead and conduct violence against those who are supposed to be their allies. Always were saying, terrible news for all the families involved in yesterdays incident. This has been going on for some time and it really has all the ranks from enlisted out in the field who have fallen to this kind of attack all the way to general greene. Barbara starr, thanks to you for that. So sad for the family and a big blow as the u. S. Tries to change the scope of its involvement in afghanistan. Quarter past the hour. Still ahead, trading weapons for words. Will the talks going on at this hour in cairo keep the curre current ceasefire going and maybe something more permanent . We will speak to a former cabinet secretary about what exactly is going on inside that room. We do . I took the trash out. I know. And thank you so much for that. I think we should get a Medicare Supplement insurance plan. Right now . [ male announcer ] whether youre new to medicare or not, you may know it only covers about 80 of your part b medical expenses. Its up to you to pay the difference. So think about an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare Insurance Company. Like all standardized Medicare Supplement insurance plans, they help cover some of what medicare doesnt pay. I did a little research. With a Medicare Supplement plan, youll be able to stay with your doctor. Oh, you know, i love that guy. Mmhmm. 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And with these plans, there could be low or no copays. You do your pushups today . Prepare to be amazed. [ male announcer ] dont wait. Call today to request your free decision guide and find the aarp Medicare Supplement plan to go the distance with you. Go long. At this hour, crucial meetings under way in cairo as representatives of both sides of this Israeli Palestinian conflict try to find Common Ground and a lasting peace. The current truce holding and set to expire on friday. They would like to extend the ceasefire into the weekend. The u. S. Meanwhile is sending a team to help monitor those talks but only in a supporting role. I want to bring in reza sayah. Good to have you with us. We have been watching the situation as i know you have. Give us an idea of what the status us of these talks right now. They began a short time ago, i understand. Reporter at least a portion of the talks have started, but its been very challenging to figure out how these talks are progressing and taking shape. Remember, this is not your usual sit down facetoface dialogue. These are indirect talks. Theyre complicated. Even though these two sides have agreed to stop fighting, there are growing indications that theyre not on the same page with how they should move forward. So lets explain to you what we know at this hour. According to Egyptian Government officials, both delegations are here, the israelis and the palestinians. A palestinian official telling cnn they are meeting at this hour with egyptian intelligence officials. There are some reports that the israelis are meeting with the egyptians as well, although we havent been able to confirm that yet. Heres where things get a little murky and you start seeing the mistrust thats fueled this conflict. A palestinian official telling cnn that hes not convinced that the israeli delegation in cairo is authorized to talk about the core demands of hamas, in other words, to talk about a permanent truce which is something that hamas wants in these negotiations. And then we have this statement from a senior egyptian official who is telling us these talks are an experimental discussion in order to consolidate the ceasefire. Now, this is a statement that suggests that these two sides, along with egyptians, are still talking about the framework of the current ceasefire and talks of a permanent truce is still a long ways off. So a lot to sort through. Some important hours coming up tonight and tomorrow, and well see where things go. Certainly an indication of the fra jillty and the diplomacy requires and the many steps. It does not happen immediately in one sitdown. Reza, great reporting. Its the first step in what could be a longer process. We have a man who has been in the room for these types of situations. Former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations among many other jobs, bill richardson. Weve learned that the state department is sending a team to help monitor these talks in a supporting role. I wonder what that means, the u. S. Is supporting these talks right now. In a supporting role, what can they do there on the ground to actually move them forward . Well, i think the u. S. Role here is still essential. Were still brokers in the middle east peace process. Were strong with israel. We have leverage and strength with abass, obviously not with hamas. Were still the leaders of the quartet, britain, france, other mediators. So our presence is important. But the key role is egypt. Egypt has emerged as the brokers trying to bring the two sides together. I imagine at the beginning of the negotiations both sides are putting out their strongest demands, but the fact that the mediation by egypt is taking place, even though theyre not meeting directly, is a good sign. I predict that there will be an extension of the deadline 72 hours. Theyre not going to reach an agreement right away, but at least theres a lessoning of tensions. At least the fighting has stopped temporarily. I think theres a lot of us with caution optimism but somewhat skeptical. Ambassador, im curious, as john was alluding to, you have been in these kind of conversations and in these kinds of negotiations. Im really curious, given the absolute distrust that these parties have for one another, profound, historic, fundamental, what is that conversation even like when you sit in that room . Well, its very heated. Its very tense as i said at the beginning. What the palestinians are going to want obviously is a lasting truce. Theyre going to want the end of the blockade between israel and egypt of the gaza which gives egypt leverage as the negotiator. What israel wants is hamas not to rearm again. Thats not going to happen, to reign in its military wing. Thats probably not going to happen. But what i think egypt will push for is a mediating role by abass, the palestinian moderates. Maybe they will be the ones that can monitor a potential fragile ceasefire and then find a way i think the key may be to fund an internationally funded and maybe thats why the u. S. Is there, a reconstruction effort of the coastal strip of gazas power plants, of their entire infrastructure that literally is collapsed. They have 260,000 refugees. I think israel is going to demand and want i think theyve destroyed most of the tunnels. Theyre going to want no reconstruction of those tunnels. That want those rockets. Theyve destroyed about 3,000. The remaining rockets that hamas launches to stop. Theres a lot of issues that discuss, but i see a ray of hope with abass, the palestinian moderates, the egyptians pushing towards that moderating role, anchor by the United States and the European Union and the u. N. To play a role in t