the list is very long, and i think this points to a need forr solly good regulation, regulation that has teeth, s that our social media platforms that have so much information about our likes, slr es, our habits of endpaiment and consumption, our personal information, are held accountable when this data goes missing or when th protecting it to the degree that they ought to. >> reporter: dmitri, is that your sense? is there sometoung that we do to -- obviously, these warnings have beent shooting off like r flares for years now. what are we not doing to encourage d force the hands of these companies to try to tighten up their security? >> well,n do think, w it comes to twitter, they have had plenty of warnings. rjust last year, a num of individuals were indicted by the f.b.i. that were working incitef twitter on behf the saudi government and were providing saudi government with private information, using their access on various dissidents that the saudi government was interested in. so twitter had pley of warnings that not just criminal groups but nation states were interested in the d