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Not Paid | Hacking Your Phone

TV Flash files “Not Paid | Hacking Your Phone” as hour 427 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 29, aired 2016-04-17, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E29: listed hour 427 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 29 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-04-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “28 Pages | Rising in the East | Switching Teams” (S48E28). Next is “The Heroin Epidemic | Dialing for Dollars | Gold Star Parents” (S48E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Not Paid | Hacking Your Phone (S48E29)

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Not Paid - Audits of the nation's biggest insurance companies have uncovered a systemic practice of insurers not paying benefits on millions of policies - even when the companies knew the policyholder was deceased. Lesley Stahl reports that 25 insurance companies, without admitting wrongdoing, have agreed to pay more than $7.5 billion in back death benefits in a series of settlements reached with states across the country. Thirty-five companies still have not settled and remain under investigation. Hacking Your Phone - International experts in mobile security including California-based Lookout founder John Hering and Berlin-based Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs show how mobile phones and the networks that carry their signals can be exploited by hackers. Hering gathered a group of security researchers in Las Vegas during a hackers convention and they broke into the phone of 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. Hering demonstrated how he could read Alfonsi's email and collect her credit card and other private and personal information. Nohl and his team in Berlin showed how they were able to exploit a flaw in a global mobile network called Signaling System Seven -- or SS7. The team was able to monitor and record a phone that 60 Minutes lent to U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-California, a member of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology.

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Where does Not Paid | Hacking Your Phone sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E29 is listed hour 427 of 767 — hour 29 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 29.

When did 60 Minutes S48E29 air?

Not Paid | Hacking Your Phone aired 2016-04-17 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?

The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.

Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…

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