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That targeted g-mail users. it prompted the user to open google docs allowing access to contacts. google stopped the attacks in an hour and roughly 1 million accounts for affected. contact information was accessed and used in the attack, but no other information was exposed. let's get a check on cnn money stream this morning. u.s. futures and global markets higher this morning. wall street ended the day lower despite strong earnings. nasdaq is down after two days of record highs and bank stocks got a boost after interest rates were unchanged. tech news. elon musk says tesla is on track to la...

Welcome back. google says it has disabled that bug that targeted about a million users yesterday. the phishing attack came in the form of e-mail asking users to open a google document. if they clicked, they were asked for permission to their account. allowing the bug to send itself to the user's contacts and other parts of the application. google says the attack lasted for about an hour and affected fewer than a tenth of a percent of their users. if you click the link you're activated to google documents. let's get to bill karins. this area hitting st. louis and then hit us in the northeast....

Does that mean? >> they're right. it is odd. it's just not very conveional behavior, don. to have 2800 lookups, i mean, what was going on? it certainly suggests there was an intent to communicate between those two parties. i really don't buy the spam explanation. here's why. if the trump hotel was spending out a spam campaign, it would be going out to maybe hundreds of thousands of people. the argument that these were being detected, they were doing a lookup to determine whether it was valid e-mail or what we call a phishing attack, if that were true, don, that would have happened from all ove...

This server activity is quote, odd, what do you make of it? what does it mean? >> they're right, it is odd. it's just not very conventional behavior here, don. i mean, to have 2800 lookups for something -- what was going on -- it certainly suggests there was an intent to communicate between those two parties. and i really don't buy the spam explanation and here is why. if the trump hotel was sending out spam campaign material, it would be going out to hundreds of thousands of people. the idea that the anti-virus products, that it was detecting these and then doing a lookup to determine whether...

Hacked. first of all, podesta was not hacked. he gave into a prkszhishing sch as juvenile as the e-mails we all receive about a nigerian prince. >> you think it was his fault? >> yes. >> you believe -- >> who falls for that? a senile grandfather falls for that kind of juvenile -- >> -- because he was the victim of a phishing attack? >> yes, here's the more important point, too. what we keep talking about is i don't know who did the hacking of the dnc. podesta was not hacked. he fell for a scream. the dnc was hacked. who did it? what with do know is what was revealed by the hack. a democratic p...