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hey guys it's the eye from a virgin where's Russell Brandon we're talking about the hack of the century what is the hack of the century yeah it's okay so it's 1.2 billion login password combinations which is more than we've ever gotten in one bundle um the security firm called hold security has been tracking this group that they named cyber for guy think it's a great name um and yet so through various methods the cyber war group had amassed 1.2 billion username and password combination and I saw before was like seaweed million yeah it was a lot it was a lot lower so I mean that's why you know the number kind of gets your attention we're up in the bees million with Abby which is which is new right at the time said like a big exclusive yes yeah yeah there are you decide it but then there's immediately questions about whether or not this was true yeah and you're saying it's not true well yeah I have my doubts I mean the biggest thing that immediately people like questions about was everyone wants to know if they're on the list like is it my logon password combination hold security which it in fairness done all this work to uncover this stuff said well if you're a subscriber which means you give us 120 bucks a year then you can know if you're on the list that seems super scamming that's the thing and so people were very uncomfortable with that especially since it was this big exclusive in New York Times New York Times certainly I'm sure didn't mean to just be driving all these people to hold security so that felt a little weird and then as you look more about the num at the numbers you know is this really a direct comparison to other hash so we've seen before or is this just a kind of come they just sort of get 1.2 billion names for various things some of them were theirs we know that they had as part of their earlier things bought username password combinations which is a thing that scammers do on the Internet um so where did this really come from is it fair to call all of it a hack is it all 1.2 billion together so what's the weird part is that it seems like there's this hacking group cyber war and yeah there's whole security and cyber wars should be the villains but it seems like cold security is doing some weird stuff to sort of turn themselves in the villains and story yeah well I think part of his the cyber war aren't very scary other than the name but I got the name sort of an example of it like there so what are they using this for they're not using it to like break into my bank account they're not sent like selling it to other criminals which is often a thing that happens they're using it to hack Twitter accounts right which is not a particularly lucrative or frightening thing with this information I mean that's cuz you're verified but I mean no it's just not like this isn't a very sophisticated thing to do with this information so that's kind of whatever and then also the way that the method that they used um you know SQL uh attacks have been known but it's not really that sophisticated of a method so if you have this unprecedented hack which 1.2 billion certainly unprecedented you expect them to be using unprecedented methods that like these people did something really cool like with target they were hacking the air conditioning company right it's like the electronic version of like crawling in through the air vents it was this cool thing and they got in this way that no one had really thought about before this there's no real equivalent that they just did this thing that they just collected a bunch of stuff and maybe hacks my well and yeah I mean they look over a lot of sites to see who is vulnerable for this but this is a known vulnerability so it's just sort of the scale of it is different kind of quantity over quality but isn't that like actually known vulnerability is being propagated in lots of places yes kind of a big story that has gone a little bit under important right yeah absolutely any does seem like these people really did hack a lot of like they hacked a lot of people right certainly I think it does seem the more you look at it that those were maybe small firms who weren't very good at security and sort of maybe these were not high value username passwords in the way that like I use a really complicated one for my bank account and like my snapchat password is a little less yeah hi pry arm the thieves obviously like there should be the other way I have insurance on the bank national reputation it came so bottom line I mean it's just scary shit being it's the hack of the century but is back the century I think most people just want to know is my stuff going to be safe what steps can I take what sort of next what's the next frontier terrifying things happening I mean you should be incredibly scared all of the time you know it's terrible um no we always say like chase your hazards use a password manager don't duplicate the passwords across multiple things which is multiple services which that's like the number one advise you don't use the same username which is exactly what they're trying to do here I mean that's the attacker doing but if your name is one of the 1.2 billion names which just statistically if you're living on earth the odds are high um it doesn't really matter like they're gonna hack your Twitter may be right if you use if you do go get it but like who cares I think people care if they have your Twitter so yeah but I mean so this is a lot of moments where you should change your password like bottom line this is what it is but like I mean it's sort of not even like if your if your twitter password was the same but i just think even in the scale of hacks like if you had shopped at Target they would have your credit card information this it's like nothing like it's just it's just very even if you're one of the people who's affected it's sort of a low-impact thing I think it's just that the numbers really high so it's sort of more likely so just continue living your life free of all danger and carefree yeah then change your passwords