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Hack off: How hackers take over your accounts using social engineering

What if your phone company gave up your information without your consent to a hacker who called up and pretended to be you? It's called social engineering, and it's an old-fashioned con game used by high-tech thieves to trick customer service reps. Charlsie Agro watches this hack in action as a security expert uses social engineering to take over her account, change her password, and then smooth-talks the employee on the other line to voluntarily keep handing over more information. And we're back on the case investigating truck driver training.

English
  • Originally Aired February 8, 2019
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-G
  • Network CBC
  • Created February 12, 2019 by
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