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False name. >> that must have been a real big moment finding that registration. >> that was huge. >> reporter: outside, special prosecutor wirskye was on hand to give legal advice. >> one of the fbi computer techs came out and said, "mr. wirskye, i don't mean to alarm you, but eric williams has been searching you and mr. shook on his computer." >> what's the first thing you did when you heard that he had been searching you? >> get on the phone with my wife and tell her to make sure she knew where the kids were and to get inside and keep the doors locked and don't answer the door for anyone up ...

Kurt the cyber guy. we are talking 419 million records over several databases. how did this happen? >> 133 million americans on facebook and expect that. some hacker has your phone number. this is the breach that happened in april 2018 and only recently has the database been found where someone scraped that information often included your user id and phone number along with other information and that was found at a database at a tech company in mexico and also residing on amazon cloud servers. facebook's request, amazon has taken that down. also associated with an apps. i was not able to verif...

Number one best thing to do number two you know trying to you know update your passwords and if not what i like to suggest people do is to put it on the web site that you go to is trying to activate a second form of authentication everybody has a user id we have a password to enter our website but at the website offers a way that you can also receive a tax that has a special code that needs to be typed then at the time you're logging into that web site that also prevents you know situations where a hacker could get hold of a user id and password they still may not be able to access your accoun...

Think it's difficult to say this you know when companies experience that data breach like this they have to hire an instant response team to do forensics and take a look at deeper look at the security configurations at the company to determine how the hackers got in and i think in this case when yahoo hired that forensics team they were going through the exercise to understand how the hackers got in and they discovered that the hackers you know apparently had access to more data than they originally thought so it's difficult to say how they got in but you know you know it's good that they cont...

Got access to names earth they basically i didn't if i did the case and you know personal identification and even though they got hold of security questions and answers to user i.d.'s and passwords so it's things like that that the hackers were after because they could take that data and basically sell it on the dark web and it's here where they plan to expose it and get money for it and three billion accounts i mean staggering number their accounts that are affected just walk us through i would say that where yahoo use their what does this breach mean for those three billion users who account...