doing. they got looking into it. it was a security firm based in milwaukee, a security expert who was looking at all this data. suddenly realized how much of it there was and also saw his own name and user name and password in the data. do we know how they did it? yes. partly the old fashioned way. they stole some of it. part, some of it they bought from the black market. but they attacked websites worldwide using a very old fashioned kind of hacking. so this is not a target style attack that was cleverly designed just for one specific thing. this was a ten-year-old technique. and they got lots of information as a result of it. data from websites. so it is not about weak passwords. this is about going around the passwords and getting into the database of a website and taking all the data about passwords. well if it is a ten-year-old technique how come we can t stop it? that is a good question. and there are a lot of security experts who say what this points out is how
true story. i said no way. it is. john berman is hosting starting point at 7:00, it s now 5:00 a.m. in the east. first 33 days until we reach the fiscal cliff and things are heating up on capitol hill. tim geithner, the chief fiscal cliff negotiator will meet with congressional leaders in an effort to get talks moving. there s no time to waste because there may be 33 days to get a deal done, but congress breaks for the holiday. that happens in just 15 days. white house correspondent dan lothian is live from washington this morning. dan, that clock is ticking louder and louder what is the very latest? i hear there are one-on-one meetings happening today. that s right. these are the president himself not sitting down and talking with lawmakers, but timothy geithner will be on capitol hill and other senior level members of the administration trying to hammer something out here. this is a complicated process. so far it does not appear the two sides have gotten closer. that s
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