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🗓️ 5 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay. |
0:04.0 | But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill. |
0:08.0 | This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed, |
0:13.0 | allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards. |
0:18.0 | Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price. Tell |
0:22.2 | Congress to Guard Your Card because Americans lose when politicians choose. Learn more at |
0:28.1 | guardycard.com. Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, March 5th. I'm Charlotte |
0:37.0 | Gartenberg for The Wall Street Journal. |
0:39.3 | It's a bit of a nightmare scenario. You download an artificial intelligence tool to make your workflow easier. |
0:45.4 | But instead, you get hacked. And what's worse? The hacker accesses all of your personal data and gets access to your employer. |
0:54.2 | This nightmare scenario recently became a reality for one Disney employee. |
0:59.1 | WSJ reporter Robert McMillan tells us what exactly happened |
1:02.8 | and what steps you can take to make it harder for the hackers if they slide into your digital life. |
1:14.1 | Bob, I listeners might remember hearing about the hack that hit Disney last July. |
1:19.0 | WSJ reported that a hacking entity stole and leaked online more than a terabyte of company data. |
1:25.0 | This included more than 44 million messages from Disney's Slack |
1:28.8 | Workplace Communications Tool. You recently profiled Matthew Van Andal, the Disney employee who |
1:34.0 | downloaded the AI tool that led to the hack. What can you tell us about him? |
1:38.3 | A lot of people call him Dutch. That's his nickname. And he was a sort of mid-level technology manager at Disney, a very earnest guy who |
1:48.5 | was interested in the field of artificial intelligence and how it might apply to his work, |
1:52.7 | and decided to learn some stuff. Many of us do things like this. We'll try and experiment with |
1:59.2 | new technologies. It's very easy to load a plug in onto |
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