police chief, charlie beck. >> we will vigorously pursue the individuals that have made me a victim ande made a number of other people that are in the public eye victims. >> reporter: the website post what appear to be their social security numbers, addresses and phone numbers and in some cases what look like their actual credit reports where the other information appears to come from. >> the credit report is the key to everything. the bad guy has your credit report, he can commit almost any kind of identity theft. >> reporter: some of the data is the kind that can be bought online from commercially available websites. once a social security number and date of birth are known. among other victims, al gore, sarah palin, former secretary of state hillary clinton, and singer beyonce. the data company equifax says at least some of their stolen information appears to come from what it called fraudulent and unauthorized access to the annualcreditreport.com website set up to let consumers see their own credit reports once a year for free. >> behind this website is data belonging to 200 million

police chief charlie beck was also targeted. >> if we find individuals and i'm comfortable we will, wel prosecute them. >> reporter: other celebrities include entertainers and politicians. hulk hogan, ashton kutcher, sarah palin and al gore. it appears to have originated in russia. but sources say the attack could have been launched from anywhere. that it will take a long time to rack the digital trail. it can happen to anyone. millions of americans are vulnerable with thousands having their private financial information compromised each year. but increasingly, hollywood's eli elea elite are becoming the targets. for years, very compromising photos of scarlet johansson, christina aguilera leaked on to the web. the fbi arrested this man. christopher cheney in florida. and charged him with 26 counts of identity theft, unauthorized access to a computer and wiretapping. just yesterday a 12-year-old boy admitted to charges that he targeted ashton koocher and justin beebe we are an elaborate form called swatting. it is when someone manipulates phone equipment to make a 911 call luring police

police chief charlie beck. >> we will vigorously pursue the individuals that an have made me a victim and a number of other people in the public eye victims. >> the website posts what appears to be their social security numbers, addresses and phone numbers and in some cases what looked like their actually credit reports where the other information appears to come from. >> the credit report is the key to everything. if a bad guy has your report, he can commit almost any kind of identity theft. >> some of the data is the kind that can be bought online once a social security number and date of birth are known. among other victims, al gore, sarah palin, hillary clinton and singer beyonce. the data company equifax says at least some of their stolen information appears to come from what it called fraudulent and unauthorized access to the annualcreditreport.com website set up to let consumers see their own credit reports once a year for free. >> behind this website is data belonging to 200 million americans. even if people never visit the website, criminals can break in and access any one of

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and the los angeles police department is on the case because chief charlie beck is also on the list. >> we will vigorously pursue the individuals who have me a victim and have made a number of other people who are in the public eye victims >> reporter: the only clue to the hackers' motivation is their shout=out to tv's vigilante serial killer, dexter. the web site includes a quote from the finale of season two: "if you believe that god makes miracles, you have to wonder if satan has a few up his sleeve." >> catherine: nasa now thinks that mars was once capable of supporting very simple forms of life. the discovery was made by the mars rover, which arrived on the red planet back in august. kron 4's charles clifford has more. >> reporter: for the past few months the curiosity rover has been exploring an area just north of the martian equator...here...near what's called the gale crater. at the moment the probe is sitting in what's believed to be an ancient stream bed. using a variety of scientific instruments, the probe has been drilling into and analyzing rocks.. looking for signs of l

and the los angeles police department is on the case because chief charlie beck is also on the list.l vigorously pursue the individuals who have me a victim and have made a number of other people who are in the public eye victims the once-- world's most- wanted computer hacker kevin mitnick explains just how easy it is to get his hands on your personal information. mitnick also explains what you can do to prevent identity theft. >> catherine: what you can do to prevent identity theft? >> there are data bases on the internet that private investigators use. to do these types of searches are only 25¢ to $1. anybody can get this type of interrogations. the milk is spilled. really, as scott mcnealy once said that you have no privacy, get over it. because this information is out there and you're not going to put the milk back in the carton is that you'd never, ever used this type of non-public information as a password. as a means to reset your password on in the credit card sites or on- line banking. you have to be relieved fraudulent to check your credit card statements, and is signing u

police chief charlie bec beck. >> we have our own guys here looking at it.have guys that are very good at computer and computer forensic so it them take a lack at it and see. again jaws creepy thing people do every once in a while put police officer names family members names, address on web sites. just one of those things people do. >> fbi has now joined the investigation. >> california lawmakers want to crook down on doctors whose patients die from prescription drug over dose dids. tonight annette takes a look now from sacramento on the debate over whether doctors bear any responsibility in this. >> as a result alex is dead. i never will forget. >>reporter: one by one grieving parents tell joint committee on business and professions the horrible death their children suffered from over dozing on prescription drugs. doctors gave them. joe san are money took a road trip to l.a. from the arizona college because he an his friends knew of a pill mill that freely gave out prescription for cash. no questions asked. >> he was prescribed oxy-codeine tablet, 90 and s

by website creators also include politicians, hillary clinton, joe biden and lapd police chief charlie beckhreat management unit takes a look at any of those things. naturally we don't discuss details of how we go about those investigations or what we do to protect our personnel. but we take all incidents like this very seriously. >> reporter: abc news. >> that is scary. that is the dark side of this computer world that we live in, man. i don't get it. get this, it takes only ten minutes to crack a lower case password that is six characters long. but if you add two extra letters and a few uppercase letters, that jumps to three years. >> so from ten minutes to three years. >> that's it. >> so if you have to come up with a password on your own, make it eight letters. that's the message here. >> make it a little more complicated. not the one, two, three, four. no. >> i've got to change my password. three, four. no. >> i got to change my password. >> we'll be back. like when i ran to catch the train to work and a draft blew my skirt up and everybody here saw my unmentionables. yeah, and they ar

somebody must have said where is charlie? sign beck wrote about a page and a half people asking what happened to charlie. my lady joined me in seattle. charlie took a family position. he's fine. obviously that never appeared in the book. what they did is the editors went in and i think expunged elaine almost thirty days of elaine's presence with john on the west coast. they weren't carping out or -- camps or studying america. they were basically on a vacation. with the truth in travels with charlie that can can't be classified as non-fiction. more with the author of dogging stein beck. >>> nuclear security of focus of a house armed service subcommittee hearing thursday. it the july 2012 breach at the national security come mention in tennessee. withins include officials with the military and energy department. this is an hour and 40 minutes. >>> called to order. i want to say gm and welcome everybody to the hearing at the department of energy national nuclear administration. before we get to the hearing i want to the new member to the

beck capital. did you think i said -- cheryl: no, i didn't know. not at all. i'm going to stop interrupting. charlieno, good story. >> reporter: okay. cheryl: i liked it very much. >> reporter: wall street with pornography. san fernando valley. cheryl: whether you agree with it, you know, morally or not, the industry itself is an incredible moneymaker, and that is why -- [inaudible conversations] >> reporter: this guy, fabian's, like larry flynt. he's like the king of porn right now. cheryl: yeah. we'll talk about claman when he gets back. >> reporter: she's got to interview fabian now. cheryl: she will, probably. closing bell's going to ring, we've got 37 minute toss go. more than four million options contracts were traded in 2011 and 2012 making it the best two-year performance ever. but can the launch of mini options bring even more max return? steve crutchfield, options ceo, going to be here. he'll talk about it next. ♪ all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. rify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. sta