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It is to capture them -- to catch them or not. >> i want to read this, because this is something that the "new york times" is reporting tonight because sometimes mistakes aren't so sophisticated and the "new york times" is reporting that john podesta, hillary clinton's campaign manager, was hacked when his aides, who had access to his account, noticed a phishing attack, flagged it and one of them responded by saying "this is a legitimate e-mail. john needs to change his password immediately." now the aide later said he knew it was a phishing e-mail and he meant to write illegitimate, not legit...

>> they saw an intrusion and very quickly took the whole thing down and have been rebuilding it. what they saw was a very fist indicated attack almost a stealthy attack. a phishing attack where suspicious e-mails come into the system, and they paren penetrated. here's what officials are telling us. it was so sophisticated there's really only two entities that could pull it off -- china or russia. china tends to attack by trying to drain data out of a system as they did with the office of personnel management when they launched a massive attack there. that's not the russian style. they go for m...

To do this. they say, though, that they know this came directly from north korea. >> yeah, we erd had the chairman of the house of the foreign affairs committee that he's received information from the administration and that they are 100% convinced that north korea is responsible. evan, thank you. let's discuss what's going on. joining us, our national security analyst fran townsend, law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, georgetown university professor victor cha, his book, "the impossible state" is about north korea. guys, thanks very much. fran, sounds pretty easy to steal an administrator's ...

Password away in a phishing attack, sometimes it's the weakest link in the chain. >> thanks so both of you. i appreciate it. i'll be right back. philosophy i? >>no. not exactly. to attain success, one must project success. that's why we use fedex one rate®. >>their flat rate shipping. exactly. it makes us look top-notch but we know it's affordable. (garage door opening) (sighs) honey, haven't i asked you to please use the.... >>we don't have a reception entrance. ship a pak via fedex express saver® for as low as $7.50.

Access was simple. it was through a targeted phishing attack. someone actually tricked someone into providing user name and password so anyone who wanted to gain access was blocked from doing so. this is what's known in the cyber world is a denial of service attack. it was a different way to get in rather than attacking ft. knox, you go into the loans. >> was any secure information accessed when they were able to get in there? >> no, this is something the new york times was clear to say it wasn't the integrity of the website compromised, it was people's ability to get to the site that was comp...