tornado. from nashville to new york, we ve got a moderate risk of flooding tonight. and if that s not enough, we have tropical depression number three. it s not going to become a tropical storm most likely, but it will bring heavy rain along the coast of florida and into the southwest, upwards of three inches. the heat wave is over. the credit monitoring company equifax has agreed to pay a massive settlement, up to $700 million, for one of biggest data breaches in history. the private information of half of the u.s. population was exposed. nbc s jolene kent now with the details on the pay out and how victims can get in on it. reporter: tonight after 150 million americans may get relief from equifax, this after one of the largest data breaches ever that compromised names, addresses, birth dates, social security numbers, and driver s license information. they re going to pay consumers for
addresses, birth dates, social security numbers and driver s license numbers. always testifying today, separately, the ceo of marriott which had its own breach it answer for back in november of 2018. last year marriott the world s largest hotel chain confirmed the company s reservation system had been hacked. that breach affected 383 million guests. during the period of four years, those hackers were able to access guest names and addresses, that makes sense, credit card numbers, phone numbers and this one continues to puzzle me, passport information. why marriott was storing passport information is beyond me. but that was a much bigger breach and the difference is this one is incidental, this is a company that does why beyond you? when you join you for things like that, they ask you for all sorts of information. you think a hotel wouldn t need the passport information? if they need it, they need when you re there. why store it in their system.
has been stolen by hackers. the hackers stole personal data including names, birth dates and addresses. officials say a computer belonging to a resettling agency in south korea was infected with malicious code, enabling the hackers to access the system. will ripley has more on this hack. reporter: as can you imagine, the news of this hack is extremely disturbing for the nearly 1,000 north korean defectors who have had their personal information stolen. this is everything from where they live, where they work, maybe their phone number. all of that in the hands of someone we don t know who it is. we don t know in north korea is behind this, but the defectors certainly suspect that pyongyang hacked into this computer trying to get as much information as they can about these people who ran away from the north and have set up new lives in the south. what was targeted here, a computer at a nonprofit that helps defectors resettle once they arrive in south korea. this center is operated by t
and what is now the second largest private sector hack in the past decade. gillian turner with what information could now be expose exposed. marriott international, the world s largest hotel chain confirmed today that it has been hacked and that information on up to 500 million of its customers potentially compromised. that information includes customer names, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, emails, passport numbers, and for some even credit card info. it is a really big deal because it gives people the keys to the kingdom when it comes to your identity. this now ranks as the number 2 largest data breach of the past ten years, only different to the yahoo attack that involved 3 million people. launching an investigation that found unauthorized access had been ongoing since 2014. nearly four years. on november 19th the company located the breach within its
facing accusations of censorship. this as new details emerge about the amount of users affected by a recent hack. jonathan hunt has more. hackers accessed names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of 29 million facebook users in the social media giant s most recent security breach. and for 14 million of those accounts, hackers also got birth dates, hometowns, recent check-in locations and searches. the fbi is investigating, but has asked facebook not to comment on who may be behind the attack. the hacking revelations come as facebook continues to crack down on what it considers fake political and news accounts, announcing it s shut down more than 800 pages and accounts for using what it calls quote sensational political content regardless of its political slant to build an audience and drive traffic to their websites, earning money for every visitor