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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

You’ve Probably Been Hacked

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Capital One is only the latest victim of a massive data breach. Equifax announced millions of users were affected by its data breach back in 2017. The fallout from Equifax’s episode is still playing out today. Why is the United States so bad at defending against cyberattacks? And once the damage is done, why can’t we manage the fallout? Guest: Josephine Wolff, assistant professor of cybersecurity policy at Tufts. She’s the author of You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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