the story became public tuesday through reporting in "vanity fair" by michael joseph gross. he joins us now. michael gross, thank you for being with us. this operation sounds breath talking in its scope. -- breathtaking in its scope. give us a sense, flush that out, who were they going after, who was targeted? >> this is an unprecedented campaign of cyberespionage, demonstrates with absolute clarity now that there are just two kinds of organizations. those that have been compromised and those that haven't as dimitri, elparavich the guy who discovered this campaign has often said. what happened is they went into more than 70 organizations, everything from the international olympic committee to giant corporations, to tiny nonprofits, in 30 different organizational categories in 14 countries. they took out government secrets, design schematics, legal contracts, negotiation plans for business deals, every kind of sensitive information you can think of. in many cases these organizations were compromised for at least a year. in some cases more than two years. and there's a really i