back to you. >> tyler mathison, thanks so much for that update on apple. josh brown, let's talk about this. do you care that tim cook made 4.25 million -- >> give him the money. this is like the largest publicly traded company in the world. he's under more scrutiny than any of the ceos in my view, give him the money. he's absolutely worth it. who else do you want in that slot? >> i think i have to say, i think this is incredibly smart of tim cook and the board. i mean, there's a lot of people who would say, well, stock is down, so we shouldn't pay him much of anything, 4.25 for one of the largest companies in the world if not the largest company in the world is a pittance, what he's done is taking the compensation issue off the table completely. >> if this was a wall street firm they would give him 104 million. so i think you pay him. and god bless, he's doing great. >> there you go. thanks for that. now, let's move on here, if you want to make a lot of money, sometimes you have to take a lot of risk. our traders are entering the danger zone and giving us

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joining me live now, tyler mathison from cnbc. let's talk about this fix here. how are consumers supposed to have confidence in this when you look at the mass number of accounts that could have been compromised? >> this is one of the biggest data breaches we've ever seen, tamron. ranking right up there with one about five, six years ago that affected tjx, tj maxx, home good and the like. this one, apparently, was very sophisticatedly engineered because it didn't involve people who were using their cards online but rather apparently in-store shoppers who swiped their card at checkout through the card reader. then what the perpetrators -- and we don't know yet who they were, whether they're domestic. a lot of these things have originated over in russia and that part of the world. we don't know, but what we think they did was took -- they basically were able to duplicate what's on the magnetic stripe on the back of your card. they usually either sell this data to other criminals who then go and make new cards that they then use for purchases, especially gift cards,