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These people over and we'll square up with you later. but that is voluntary. so in theory people will be turned away because their records are inaccurate or they haven't played the premiums. >> wow, you gave us a lot of information. well the misplaced information, why is that happening? >> well just the other day in one state, i believe it was massachusetts, they had to go back to 16,000 who signed up and said you have to resubmit everything because we can't find everything that you sent in? >> so where does it all go? and again i have to harken back to security here. you put it out on the int...

Identify how hackers stole information from 40 million credit and debit cards over the past couple weeks. they say the security problem is fixed and a dedicated team is working with law enforcement to try to find the hackers. what can you do to protect yourself and how did they pull it off? we talk to a former hacker to try and explain. this is fascinating and scary, kevin, i must say. the more and more you're learning that we are learning about what happened at target, how do you think they pulled it off? can you help explain this? >> well, i think there's a couple of ways, first of all i thi...

A file to a target employee and if they go ahead and open that attachment, that file, it exploits a security flaw and now that hacker has complete control over that user's computer. that could have been the foot in the door. but i guess what they'll do, when target does their forensic investigation they'll figure exactly how the hackers got in. >> does this speak more, do you think, poor security at target or do you think every company is vulnerable to something like this? it's scary when you think 40 million people could be impacted by this. >> i do hacking for a living. companies hire me to ...

>> you keep worrying me you would know that and you who you would ask th. in the video. he pit over his fing sorry the print would have been warm. they will more than likely, please don't cut off your finger to get into someone else's phone. they will find a security update. there is always going to be little bugs every time they release a you in one. there is another security flaw if you push the buttons in the right order, it's like playing nintendo, up, right, left, right, av. it's one of those sixes. >> you get a free life. >> more people are getting it. they were sticking them in my fac...

Some security soft wear energy asking me please send all the details to my e-mail. >> reporter: it's especially tough on young people. khalil himself hasn't had a job in two years. he was hoping that facebook would reward him for the security flaw he discovered. but apparently, that's not to be. facebook says it regrets that khalil broke the terms of agreement by posting on zuckerberg's personal page. therefore, he's not eligible for a cash reward that he estimated would be anywhere from $500 to several thousand dollars. >> i spent more than two years looking for a job. jobless everywhere here...