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Saying over and over to folks here, manage your expectations. this going to take a lot of time. a close call with a category 5 hurricane here. >> ron mott, thanks very much. we'll continue to cover the damage in the caribbean as well. new breaking news this hour on equifax. the huge cyber security breach. seven attorney generals filing lawsuits or opening criminal investigations, and lawmakers on the hill invited the company's ceo to testify. details on that on the other side. a lot of money on my car insurance by switching to geico. i should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico ca...

You individually and systemically. to you, a risk of deputy theft. i think the even bigger problem we're just now coming to grips with is that this is going to be a trove of information to people about how to deanonymize people and reidentify them. so much of our security is based upon personal information. questions like, where were you born? what's your mother's maiden name? all of that is possibly retrievable from large-scale breaches like equifax, home depot, target -- >> all the good security questions. here's a list of five streets. tell me which you haven't lived on. i have to think har...

Their job was to collect all of the possibly collectible sensitive information about you. especially financial information, and use that to generate credit scores. something we're all familiar with. so this is kind of like fort knox getting knocked over and all the gold going out the door. why goldfinger went after fort knox in the bond movies. >> let me ask you something. you wrote a smart article that i had trouble parsing because i just don't live in this world and know it that well, but you seem to imply in your article that there is a security weakness in some software that equifax uses t...

Possibility that may actually be a true story and may very well be the case that the senior executives were just not paying enough attention to cyber security. lots of boards in lots of major companies are just now coming to grips with the idea that they have an exposure, a risk exposure, in cyber security in the same way they have skoexposs could commodity price changes or h.r. problems. a reality today. >> unbelievable to me. first, let's show viewers what has been breached. the type of information that may be out there. it's your social security number, possibly. driver's license number, cr...

For more on this i'm joined by paul rosenzweig, defector of a homeland security consulting company and served as the deputy assistant secretary for policy in the department of homeland security. he's authored several books on cyber security as well as a new op-ed in scientific america entitled "the equifax hack: bad for them, worse for us." ball, before i get to the danger, the exposure that this has led to for so many, tens of millions. more than 100 million americans, i want to get to one fact. equifax said two days after the fact when these executives sold their shares they didn't know of t...