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To send a message you do not collect this kind of data on that many americans and mess it up. if you do, there will be vast consequence. i guarantee you if that happened, no other of these companies would miss their next security patch. >> earlier we were talking about north korea and you talked about how trump could stumble into a crisis from which there is no face-saving way out. you also write today that the president refuses to hold russia to account for anything. i too would like to see more pressure applied to russia, but i wonder what the risks are of escalating to a point of a no face-...

>> what we've seen here is the most outrageous, the most egregious example of a company not doing what it needs to do when it comes to protecting consumer information. >> and there's even more to it. and we have developments just today, and that is the company said early on, equifax said that there was a vulnerability in some software they were using. a web application made by apache software, an open source software. keep in mind the security breach occurred from mid may to mid july. but here is what's critical. apache software pushed out a security update to fix that hole in march, two month...

And the u.s. it's targeting government agencies and global firms including companies like merck, and wpp. agencies have been hit particularly hard including the monitoring system at the nuclear power plant. this virus is similar to wannacry. ransom ware infects and locks a computer and demands $300 in bit coin to open it up. microsoft did release a security patch in march but the virus targets anyone that hasn't updated their system. we don't know yet the source of the attack. while some experts say the virus spread from software in ukraine, but we do know the virus uses hacking tools believed...

Open it up. microsoft released a security patch in march but the virus targets anyone who has not updated their system. cyber security and law enforcement officials are investigating. we're live from london where several companies were hit. good morning to you. what do we know about who might be behind this attack? >> reporter: that's the big question everybody is trying to answer this morning and this is a month after after the wannacry attack that paralyzed about 200,000 computers in 150 countries and we still don't know who was behind that. people suspect north korea but there's been no c...

Bracing for more fallout from the biggest cyber attack ever. 200,000 users in 150 countres were hit by attacks that started late friday. law enforcement warns, there will be more victims this morning as the workweek begins. already attacks being reported overnight in china, japan and korea. now, this virus locks users out of their own computers and then demands hundreds of dollars to regain control. it's ransomware, holding all of your information for ransom. global companies like fedex and nissan, as well as hospitals, universities, even government agencies have been hit by the so-called rans...