meet cybersecurity expert and former fbi operative eric o'neill. in 2001, he helped capture one of the most notorious spies in united states history, robert hanssen. now eric is an internationally known cybersecurity expert committed to fighting one of the biggest threats to our security in today's world, udentity theft. - one of the misconceptions about identity thieves is that they just steal credit cards. that they're going for the swipe and then they put fraudulent charges on your card and you can just get your bank to take care of it. it's bigger than that. it's global. it's somebody online who's stealing your information directly from computer systems. because all your information is out there. the internet was never meant to protect information, it was built to share information. identity thieves know all the intricate ways that they can exploit that imperfect system in order to steal your information. and so it's important for us to attack the problem ourselves, to take personal responsibility for our identities. - [narrator] you may think y