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Account noticed a fishing attack, flagged it, and one of them responded by saying, this is a legitimate e-mail, john needs to change his pass word immediately. now, the aide later said he knew it was a fishing e-mail and he meant to write illegitimate, not legitimate. it is shocking, such a small error could have huge repercussions. how often does something like this happen? >> most hacks today, don, actually begin with an e-mail. it is called social engineering, and what this attack method is, is a junior high schooler could do it. they send malicious links or, like in this case, a fake g-mai...

>> a very fateful moment in that moment when john podesta and a staffer access to his e-mail account changed his password. there were a decade worth of podesta e-mails, approximately 60,000 e-mails transferred to these cyber hackers, and that was the reason we then learned about all of hillary clinton's speeches, that we got all of the back and forth between various campaign aides and criticism of even of hillary. it was months worth of embarrassing moments for hillary clinton in the final months of the campaign. and it hurt her. so it's incredible historically to look at the act of an i.t. gu...

Commend the ceo came out right away and said that the credit card information has been stolen. they did say they resolved the issue. unfortunately, the issue may have been the hole may have been plugged but the issue is not resolved. right? so unless they have captured the perpetrator and have all of your credit card information back, which they haven't said they do. had 0 million people that shopped in-store at the checkout counter your information has been stolen. so what happened most-likely is that they got in behind the scenes, whether they -- there is technology term called fishing attac...

International were completely stopped for a while. may be unclear who people will blame for these delays but won't take them long to blame somebody. bret? >> bret: a bit of a scare today at the associated press twitter account. what happened? >> shortly before the briefing. somebody hacked into the ap's twitter account and said there had been two explosions at the white house and president obama was injured. the dow industrials fell 140 points before julie pace told press secretary jay carney what had happened. >> i appreciate that and i can say that the president is fine izzo just with him. s...

Concerned about that? >> brian: this is it outrageous >> steve: absolute lie. >> gretchen: we are concerned and it is our first head line. >> brian: no, we are concerned but the people who allowed it to happen. >> gretchen: we'll find out more information. >> brian: $3 million, that's how much money attorneys for whistle white house staffer opened an blowers donated to the president's reelection campaign e-mail that was a fishing as the obama administration cracks down on corporate fraud. attack and the phfishing kind they're reaping multi million dollar rewards. with a link that gave hackers ...