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Welcome to the Daily Show Global Edition.

I'm Roy Wood Jr. host of the award winning CP time.

And in honor of Black History Month, Trevor has asked me to introduce the show.

But before we begin, some news out of Spain where authorities have shut down an international

criminal gang that trafficked in stolen cardboard.

So now if you want a huge amount of cardboard, you just have to buy something from Amazon.

Thanks for somehow shipping me that wristwatch in five separate boxes.

Here are this week's headlines.

Let's kick it off with the big news.

Equifax.

Some people know them as a credit reporting agency.

Others know them as a player-hater that stops you from buying your couch.

Well, you may remember that they were at the heart of a massive data hack and now we're

finding out how it all went down.

Good evening.

It was one of the biggest cyber attacks in history, stealing the personal information

of nearly half of all Americans from our social security numbers to birth dates.

Now in a stunning announcement, the U.S. Justice Department is accusing a branch of the Chinese

military with the 2017 hack of the Credit Rating Company Equifax.

The Chinese team hid their tracks by using 34 servers in nearly 20 countries.

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