Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Data Breach Edition

On the Media | Jun 12, 2015

Governments get hacked - it's almost inevitable. The bigger the hack - the more acute the subsequent panic.

On June 4th, 2015, for example, the federal government revealed it had been hit with one of the largest data breaches in its history. A week later, amid great speculation, very little was known for certain. Bob spoke with Robert Knake, Senior Fellow for Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, about the predictable pitfalls of the media's rush to cover a massive hack and about what we need to keep in mind for the next one(s).

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