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Jul 30, 2019

What are the odds your data was stolen?

Let’s do the numbers.

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 30: A man checks his phone as he walks past the Capital One offices in Midtown Manhattan on July 30, 2019 in New York City. In one of the largest-ever thefts of bank data, a software engineer in Seattle was arrested for hacking into a Capitol One server and obtaining the personal data of over 100 million people. The data includes social security numbers, bank account numbers, names, addresses, credit scores, credit limits, balances, and other information. — NEW YORK, NY - JULY 30: A man checks his phone as he walks past the Capital One offices in Midtown Manhattan on July 30, 2019 in New York City. In one of the largest-ever thefts of bank data, a software engineer in Seattle was arrested for hacking into a Capitol One server and obtaining the personal data of over 100 million people. The data includes social security numbers, bank account numbers, names, addresses, credit scores, credit limits, balances, and other information.
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Segments From This Episode

The reality of a massive security breach
by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
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A statistician breaks down what’s behind the big, scary numbers.
Tax tips from Nina Olson, America’s national taxpayer advocate
by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
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Nina Olson’s job is to serve as the voice for taxpayers inside the IRS. Here are her top five tax tips.
A slow housing market picked up in June
by Ben Bradford
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Demand for homes is strong in this economy. The problem is there just aren’t enough of them to go around.

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