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Swipe your card on a smartphone. this is just an iphone. >> it will work with an ipad. you've gone into a big box retailer of some sort, made a purchase, employee is here to help you now, and you hand them your card, you run the card through. >> reporter: and that's where shoppers are at risk. >> once the credit card transactions are run through we're able to steal the credit card transactions before they're encrypted, if they're not encrypting in the hardware. >> the problem isn't in the card swiper attached to the phone. it's in the software retailers use to process your payments. in some ca...

They worn it is impossible to track down how many servers ran the malicious software. so millions more could be affected here. you may want to update your antivirus software in the meantime. there is vendors like web root and of course trust wave that sell services actually block you from visiting a bad website. these are to be considered because millions of people are affected. jon: that is pretty scary stuff. >> i know. especially if they have the personal information, like could happen at adp. a big deal. jon: lauren simonetti. thanks. jenna: no more 1234 passwords. hard to keep track of th...

Tell us about that. >> well, i frankly thought that was the most interesting part of this story. if you look at the numbers it looks like a lout a million and a half p accounts, hit facebook, twitter, linked in, so forth. 2 million user names and passwords is not a lot when you consider over 2 billion users of this media, less than 1/10 of 1%. you're right the service call trust wave -- the thing all these user names and passwords were posted on the internet. trust wave looked at them and analyzed them and looked at what the most common passwords were that were stolen. the thumb one was this b...

Probably would meet would become his best friend. >> while kyle spoke to walker, kristen found the perfect ring, but it was too expensive, so they left the store. >> there was no way we could afford it. >> but then the store clerk called and invited them back. >> here's your ring, it was bought and paid for in full. just utter amazement and sheer gratitude. >> the couple assumed the anonymous buyer was walker, but it wasn't confirmed until this week after the actor's death. >> he just did a wonderful and generous thing. >> as we've reported, walker was on his way to a charity event on saturday...

It had malicious key logging software installed on computers around the world. that software was able to capture users private credentials. the hack was detected november 24th. it was revealed to us couple days ago. the adp one is concerning. those accounts might be at risk. those are used by payroll personnel to manage paychecks. hackers could have gone access to personal information. they may have been able to cut checks. for some perspective, adp pays one in six american workers. the big question what should you do if your information is at risk? first of all, change your password. if it is...