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Hack Off: How Hackers Take Over Your Accounts Using Social Engineering (46x14)

Air date: Feb 08, 2019

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.