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Accounts. hackers got the information and then posted it online. our chief business correspondent, christine romans, is in new york with more on this. good morning. >> good morning. posted it online, carol, for other hackers to see and use as well. let me show you the hack attack and the numbers for who was hacked here. it's facebook, twitter, all these names you know so well. how do they do it? key logging virus software secretly infected these people's computers and copied log-in credentials for websites and sent them back to the hackers. it means they've got the passwords, probably got pers...