the workers. heather: all the walmart workers and customers smell great across the country. 26, 2017, in the tech industry, with every product, here to break it down this year the biggest tech successes and failures, thanks for joining us. it was a huge year when it comes to three concepts. remember aqua facts, 145 million of us had our credit heather: i forgot about this. the dark web and for sale for a lot of people and offering protection, said what they were going to do to help everybody at this point from this point
it will ask you for your last name and last six digits of your social security number and it will tell you if you ve been affected by this data breach. like you said earlier with the hundred 43 million people, chances are you probably have been affected. equifax will then offer you what they call a credit protection and a credit monitoring service. it s free if you sign up for a before november 4. you will have to give some information about yourself. they re asking for more private information like your social security number as well as your address and birth date which people get very nervous about, but our recommendation is give them that information. what do they do with the. it will do two things. it will freeze your credit account, it will actually lock it. it means anybody that is applying for credit and wants to use your information to apply for a loan or credit card for themselves, they
in front of a lot of issues. i have to ask you about the whole equifax, and the actions of the company, lack of explanation for why almost $2 million in stock was sold by senior executives after the breach. the allegation executives didn t know about this. so much is wrong with this. your thoughts? first i have to make sure i preface remarks our practice in the department of justice here in california is not announce, if we are in any way doing an investigation, but i will say, because we ve said it before is, the day after equifax made the announ announcement, notified people of the breach, we were already in contact with them. my legal team was. we pushed them on this heissues requiring individuals to sign an arbitration clause to get the credit protection they would need moving forward. we re going to do everything we can, because it s unacceptable that tens of millions of americans should have their
addressing, certainly social security numbers. the florida department of agriculture does not believe there was enough information breached that this can be a case of identity theft. they don t have that kind of information. just to make sure those that do or did get their social security numbers hacked, at least get free credit protection the next year or 18 months. the bigger question, why is anyone trying to steal information about gun permits? the florida department of law enforcement believes the hack originated overseas, but they won t say where and the fble has not release information about a possible motive. it appears the 16,000 or so that got hacked had apparently renewed their conceal carry permits online. it appears the hackers may have been looking for more financial information, but they were unsuccessful. there s more than 1.6 million florida residents with these conceal carry permits.
you would think it would be a frustration level response in their voice and it was almost a sadness like they knew that they had lost the game. another fire in northern california has been burning for more than a week now. this one has destroyed nine ohms so far. nine homes so far. officials are planning to deploy the military troops to stop the infernos. and this. you may soon be receiving a letter from the irs. it is to inform you that your personal data may have been personalized by hackers. the agency first informed taxpayers about the security breech in may, but now the number of potential victims climbed to 334,000. the irs will provide credit protection for all of those people. welcome to red eye. i m tom shillue. let s check in with andy levey. you must be excited about the news today.