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The Clark Howard Podcast

4.3.19 Airline software meltdown; GA Tech data breach; Stay safe when taking Lyft and Uber

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Clark says that there is a message for businesses in the aftermath of airline software failing this week; GA Tech had a data breach involving over a million former and current students; Clark gives thoughts on how to stay safe when using a ride sharing service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you and your wallet.

0:10.9

I want you to learn ideas me so you can keep more of what you make.

0:16.4

Coming up a little bit later in today's Clark Regist's moment, another big data breach,

0:21.5

this one affecting people in the millions.

0:25.3

I'll fill you in on it.

0:26.7

What you need to know, what you need to do is the information trickles out.

0:32.1

And then later, two murders, just in a couple of days involving people getting ubers or

0:40.6

lifts.

0:41.6

I want to talk about things I do to be safe when I'm getting an Uber lift.

0:48.8

Things you should know, other suggestions that will keep you out of harm's way.

0:54.3

If you are using a rideshare service, I want to talk right now about something that

1:01.2

happens, being in transportation.

1:04.7

Beginning of this week, six of the nation's airlines had to cancel a lot of flights and

1:11.1

had lengthy delays because of a technical system they used for flying went down and it

1:19.6

took airlines from hour to so many hours to get their planes back in the air.

1:31.2

There are so many computer systems were dependent on.

1:36.6

Is best anybody knows the problems, it's a database that many airlines use in the airline

1:43.2

industry.

1:44.5

It was not a hack or anything like that.

1:46.2

It was just a mess up with the software with the system that led to the problems and

1:52.8

it was brutal for people who on a Monday morning, we're trying to get somewhere for meetings

1:57.8

or a convention or business or whatever and couldn't get there or got there really late

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