fake news and the platform. this is another black eye for facebook. reporter: this has users outraged. we had people saying, maybe i shouldn t be spending so much time on facebook. maybe i should delete it. they feel this caused the election to happen the way it did and why people were angry about it. reporter: it all dated back when facebook opened up the platform to developers. i think they built something beyond their wildest dreams and extremely powerful in ways they had no idea it could be powerful. did you think, oh, no, this was based off the platform you were an early architect of? yes. to the answer. i don t think it was something you could have predicted or even thought was a risk. we re talking about a level of nation states and nation state actors. these are countries, right, that have military biggesudgets beyo
is it too much to think, donna, she might have some potentially sensitive information on her e-mail we don t know now but you know who is going to find out? chairman elijah cummings come january. he s going to find out the answer to that question. we don t know. those e-mails have to be sifted through and it s not acceptable her lawyer said you can look at these but you can t look at the others two former staffers with loyalists to the trumps, here s what they said we do not have that sound bite unfortunately. but they both said it was hypocritical what do you think? i think it s a bad mistake by ivanka trump because everyone who s close to the president is a target of hostile nation state actors and sometimes criminal syndicates for all of their e-mail
and twenty-six vitamins and minerals. ensure. now up to 30 grams of protein for strength and energy! the midterm elections are three weeks from today but there are concerns this afternoon about efforts to interfere with the vote. nbc news obtained a homeland security assessment which says there have been an increase in attacks on data bases, and the federal government does not know who s behind the attacks because the techniques used are available to nation state actors and non-state actors. it also says all potential intrusions were prevented or mitigates. joining us to look at this is john carron, a former chief of staff to robert mueller, he s currently a partner at morrison and forester, and the author of a new book dawn of the code
some people, including john mccain, have called an act of war. not everyone agrees with that, but it was certainly a significant attack on our democracy that some would argue requires a significant response and we just haven t seen it. ken, lastly here, you were at the summit in colorado about a week ago with other national security journalists, sort of a who s who of national security personnel, as well, and from what i understand reading your piece, companies were there, as well, talking about this issue. what are they saying about the threats they are facing, about the threats the u.s. faces broadly here when it comes to cyberattacks from overseas? yeah, well private cybersecurity firms are watching on a daily basis nation state actors, you know, doing malicious things to our critical infrastructure, whether it s iran, north korea, russia, china, you know, i m not suggesting this is anything out of the ordinary. this has been going on for years, but they reiterated at this confe
pilfered. they had actually threatened to destroy the servers at hbo. we re seeing these much more frequently. that should be very disconcerting to consumers and the commercial sector here, kacie. can you explain about what the iranian s government might be in attacking hbo? i mean, what is their national security interest there? is it simply to just get the money in this kind of ransom attack or is there something else at work? so in this particular case, the particular hacker that was charged, an indictment out of the southern district of new york, he had previously been associated with attacks by the iranian military on u.s. military sites, nuclear information, et cetera, and in this particular case, it appears he may have been working actually on his own. interestingly, we ve seen nation state actors who have worked previously to break into companies and government