Last Friday morning, a key part of the Internet's infrastructure was overwhelmed by a series of attacks conducted by hackers. As a result, the East Coast experienced a massive internet outage that took out popular websites like Twitter, Spotify, Paypal and more. Aimed at Dyn, a company that connects to websites, the hack funneled a huge amount of traffic to the company in an attempt to knock the service offline.
"We saw the real vulnerability on Friday," says Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporter for Motherboard. "This time is was Dyn, next time it could be CNN or New York Times."
Hear how hackers are getting into everything from John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail accounts, to the rest of the Internet of Things.