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Many Hannafords shoppers got a big shock a few weeks ago when the grocery chain acknowledged that hackers had been stealing customers’ credit card numbers for several months. This isn’t the first such security breach in the state. We’ll break down the complex process that begins each time you swipe that card, find out who’s in charge of making sure your payment goes where they’re supposed to, and look at what the private sector is doing to keep up with hackers.

Guests

• Jerry Little, president of the New Hampshire Bankers Association
• Avi Rubin, professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, founder of the data security company Independent Security Evaluators and author of Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting