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Hi I'm Carl Azuz for CNN 10.
a facebook hack from two years ago is
what leads off today's show
why are we covering this now because the
information from more than
530 million facebook accounts has just
been noticed on a hacker website
by the summer of 2019 more than 2.4
billion people were active on facebook
every month
that's the time when the company says it
found and fixed a flaw in its system
that had allowed hackers to get the
personal information of hundreds of
millions
facebook ids relationship statuses bios
birthdays
all of this could be compromised cyber
security experts say the leaked
information
probably doesn't include social security
numbers or credit card numbers
which are what's most useful to hackers
and identity thieves
but analysts say this is a reminder that
no information that people share with
online services can ever be guaranteed
to stay private
and that people should only ever share
what they would accept appearing in a
public database somewhere down the line
as far as sharing personal info goes
like your password credit card and
social security numbers
security officials say you should only
do that if you have
personally started the conversation or
transaction
not if a person or organization randomly
asks you for it
so hackers in this case apparently back
in 2019 were able to exploit a flaw
in facebook systems where they were able
to match phone numbers of apparently
hundreds of millions of facebook
users with their facebook accounts now
what that has now resulted in
is someone has posted on a hacking form
the details we're told of
500 million half a billion facebook
accounts phone numbers
email addresses where people live
people's names
uh all of this information really a
trevor treasure trove for cyber
criminals who might want to engage
in identity theft breakdown of the
numbers by country we see 32 million
accounts
in the us 11 million in the uk 28
million in saudi arabia
and hundreds of millions more around the
world
facebook says it has fixed that flaw
that
they said they actually fixed the flaw
back in 2019 obviously this data
is still out there we ask the company
if they are going to tell users if
they're going to tell people uh
who have been affected by this that
their information is out there they said
no comment at the moment one thing i
should also mention is we were speaking
to a cyber security expert who now has
accessto this data and he was able to quickly
pull up the details of two of our cnn
colleagues so a lot of people
impacted by this 10 second trivia
which of these options is an example of
a cryptocurrency like bitcoin
epicurean ethereum excelsior or enervate
ethereum is the answer one ether is
currently valued
at about two thousand dollars
okay that's one term you'll need to know
for our next story the other
is nft or non-fungible token
this is like a digital stamp on a
digital piece of art
take a drawing or short video someone
creates on a computer
once an nft is associated with it the
token
proves someone owns it can other people
still download the image
yes it can be shared like a gif but that
ownership token is what some consumers
are paying more and more money for
what's unknown is whether this is just a
fad or a sea change in the digital art
world
a year ago the pandemic cost carlos
martial his
job as a graphic designer in mexico city
with three kids
martial needed to find a way to support
his familyhighest amount i would get for a one of
one it was around like 250 dollars
that was the most bun um the pandemic
hitand and i didn't have any other options
growing up the son of a struggling
artist
he knew firsthand how difficult the life
of an artist could be so you weren't a
full-time
artist before no i wasn't i wasn't
i was just like your normal you know
nine to five
treaty designer and i had the dream but
it was something
that that i thought it was never gonna
be possible
or plausible you know never until crypto
and nfts um appear martial is now one of
the manydigital artists around the world who
have seen their lives
turned upside down with the booming
market for nfts
the digital tokens that have fueled the
rise of an unprecedented market for
digital art the nft
situation has just kind of exploded onto
the scene christie's set to become the
first major auction house
to sell a purely digital artwork known
as an nft
nfts are unique digital tokens that can
be traded on the blockchain
by associating infinitely copyable
digital files
with finite digital tokens nfts create
scarcity and scarcity leads to value
it's like an unfathomable number to be
quite honest
it's just crazy people's historic 69
million
auction has shaken the art world and led
to an explosion of
interest and dollars into the booming
world
of digital art the historic cell by
people
is actually going to open the eyes of
the arts world as they know it
and digital art is going to be prized
as much as traditional art and a
traditional artist i would say that i
deserve it
my work deserves to be as on the same
shelf as the traditional art
and not just below osinachi's art might
look like it could be hanging in an
established gallery
but for a nigerian living thousands of
miles away from the rarefied galleries
ofnew york city or london that was an
impossible dream when you started making
art did you know
any professional artist no i i i
wouldn't say i knew any professional
artists
since 2007 osinatchi has made his art on
his computer
starting out he didn't know about
photoshop and he learned how to paint
digitally on a different piece of
software
he had access to microsoft word
the use of microsoft were just came
naturally to me so something i
discovered and
decided to explore further now digital
artists like osanachi and martial are
seeing their work
valued like never before a year ago you
couldn't sell your work for more than
250
what did your last piece go for
ethereum's current current price
um it sold for 12 it which is
around twenty thousand dollars for one
piecefor one piece a lot of money it's a lot
of money
and in and in one year to have seen
um how much my work has appreciated
um it's it's it's been mind-blowing tell
me about how exciting a moment this is
for you someone who is not in new york
is not in london you know he's not in
miami many of the you know traditional
hubs of art
what does this mean for you it means
everything
john it literally means everything
it means that an unknown detailed artist
from the third world like myself
can dream big of becoming big in the art
worldnfts have also allowed for something
artists have been dreaming of
for as long as art has existed royalties
on many nft sales there are royalties
paid out to artists on secondary sales
for artists that's a sea change i spent
half my life in art school basically um
and all my time around artists and yet i
had not run into a single artist
out of the thousands that i've
interacted with that could make a living
off of just making art full-time in the
first
42 years of my life i've now got you
know dozens and dozens of friends
who can live off of full time off of
making artworkin part because they get to participate
in the rewards
of their work as it goes up in value but
nfts are not without controversy
the enormous carbon footprint that
cryptocurrencies have is
growing by one estimate ethereum alone
now consumes as much electricity as all
ofireland and the carbon cost of crypto
has created a fierce debate amongst
artists about the ethics of
participating in the nft space
defenders of nft say that the massive
electricity used to power the nft market
is temporary and only a growing pain for
a new technology
a lot of this stuff it's early tech and
it's like i'll be the first to say
it's not ready yet it doesn't all work
right you know we're early stage
screeching modem days or whatever
for now a select few of the top digital
artists around the world like martial
and osinatchi
are seeing their lives transformed
there are several places where you don't
want bees your porch
your bonnet your car but this is what
happened when a man in new mexico went
grocery shopping recently
he left his windows open and 15 000 bees
decided to swarm in
he called 911 duty firefighter who just
happens to be a beekeeper he removed the
bees from the car and took them to his
own property
don't fight the bees with water and
don't fight the bees with fire honey
comb the apiary till you find the fire
fighter who saves bees by keeping them
alive whose apriculture thrives in hives
he's the best extractor no detractor
he's the actor who can harvest colonies
of bees with ease and a swarm factor
he'll be on the wing to take the swing
out moving workers and the queen out
using all these hacks to ensure it's not
your beeswax
I'm Carl Azuz and today's shout out goes
out to northmont high school it is in
englewood ohio thanks so much for
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