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way that could be so alarming. it s 1 of those cases to be over cautious rather than have it the other way around saying we didn t check and people are having problems because of that. reporter: here are the basics: 2900 people will be warned. the key here, the dates of the surgery. this only impacts people who had surgery between august 17th of last year and january 22nd of this year. if you had surgery outside of those dates or impacted the hospital for other reasons, this does not impact you according to the hospital. those who need to get tested will have the cost of the tests picked up for them by swedish. swedishs it will not release the employee s name right now. we know the englewood police department has started a criminal investigation into all of this. the chances that any of the 2900 were infected are very low but it can happen. a nursing assistant received 30 infected close to 20 patients in 2008 and 2009. adele, she was also involved in what s known as ....
get the word out as quickly as we could. reporter: you feel like that should have been a quicker response to the public? the nature of flaring event is we had to determine what was happening and make sure that we got accurate information out. one thing history has proven to us is that chevron cannot be trusted, that we need to have independent investigations, not investigations conducted by chevron to tell us what really happened, what was really emitted. reporter: now, the bay area air quality management group says they will be investigating. veronica, one of the issues out here is that they have monitors to test how much pollutants got into the public. but not everyone in the community here believes those monitors are adequate enough. lots of people nervous. thank you. memories still fresh of a major incident at the same chevron refinery in 2012. a major fire sent thick, black smoke into the air. 15,000 people went to the hospital with respiratory problems ....
credit card statement and checking it twice. now, target says they did know about the breach as of last sunday. but they didn t say why they haven t told customers until today. bottom line, if you use a debit card, change your p.i.n. and get a new one. if you used a credit card, probably not as urgent. target set up a hotline and we have information about that on our website, kpix.com/consumerwatch. on the consumerwatch, julie watts, kpix 5. as bad as all this is, it s not the worst security breach we have seen. in 2006, tjx companies which owns tj maxx and marshalls suffered a breach that affected 94 million accounts. it cost the company $68 million in fraud losses. back in 2011, hackers accessed 77 million accounts of the sony playstation network. that same year, 60 million people were affected when hackers attacked epsilon, an email marketer with clients like best buy, capital one and walgreens. the families of eight special ed. students will split an $8 million ....