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🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | When I was thinking about how to start the show, I was looking at what happened with |
0:09.1 | Capital One. |
0:11.7 | And my main question was, is there any way in this day and age that my personal information |
0:20.1 | has not been hacked? |
0:21.9 | Oh, no, absolutely not. |
0:26.6 | Unless you live completely off the grid with no credit and cash only, and there's no way. |
0:33.4 | Josephine Wolfe is a professor of cybersecurity at Tufts University. |
0:37.7 | She is really a matter of fact about data breaches, like the one that happened to Capital One |
0:42.1 | last week. |
0:43.7 | She says, by the time you hear this story, you'll already be in the process of forgetting |
0:48.2 | that 100 million customers have had their information stolen. |
0:52.3 | So right now, people are reading about Capital One and interested in what happened and who |
0:56.5 | did it and all of the circumstances. |
0:58.9 | And then all of us move on. |
1:00.3 | And understandably, there are other things going on. |
1:03.5 | And one of the things that really interests me is sort of what the long drawn out legal and |
1:07.7 | economic aftermath of these incidents looks like. |
1:11.4 | From her perspective, what made last week really interesting is that there were two of these |
1:16.1 | stories going on at the same time. |
1:18.2 | All right, what's in your wallet? |
1:19.9 | In one of the biggest data breaches ever, a hacker gained access to more than 100 million |
1:24.4 | Capital One customer accounts. |
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