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Linwei Ding was a software engineer at Google, assigned to the team building the AI infrastructure that the entire industry was racing to replicate. He had access to confidential material most engineers only read about. And for a year and a half, he used it to quietly copy over 2,000 pages of Google's most closely guarded technical secrets, file by file, right under their noses. He had a startup i...

A fraud auditor at a small bank in Sri Lanka is reviewing transfers on a Thursday morning when a twenty million dollar wire comes through for an organization he's never heard of, with a name that's misspelled and a number that has no business showing up on a screen in Colombo. What he doesn't know yet is that he's looking at the edge of a billion dollar heist targeting the central bank of Banglade...

This story reveals the inner thoughts of an IT help desk employee whose routine Friday phone call opened the door to one of the largest cyberattacks in casino history. A ten minute conversation, a single password reset, and a hundred million dollars in damage. Inspired by the 2023 MGM Resorts hack by the teenage hacking group Scattered Spider. Email Newsletter : www.dontgetgot.co/subscribe NOTES -...

Before the stolen billions, before Hollywood appearances and rubbing shoulders with celebrities, before the yachts and the Picassos and the Golden Globes, Jho Low was a sixteen year old kid at a boarding school in London trying to keep up with Saudi royalty. This is the story of how he learned the game. Subscribe to our email newsletter for updates : www.dontgetgot.co

His dad spent years earning the government's trust. Built a small IT firm from nothing. Landed a contract to manage billions in seized crypto for the U.S. Marshals Service. Then his 21-year-old son found the keys to the vault. $46 million. Gone. This is the story of how a government contractor's son robbed the federal crypto vault and couldn't stop bragging about it. ____________________________ J...

Ronald Spektor was 23, living with his dad in Brooklyn, stealing millions from Coinbase users with nothing but a phone call. He gambled away $6 million, bragged about it on Telegram, and thought no one could touch him. Then someone started following the money. This is the story of the victim who picked up the phone, the kid who couldn't stop talking, and the trail that doesn't disappear.

On January 9th, 2026, a Betterment employee got a phone call from IT. The voice was friendly. The request was routine. The login page looked exactly like the one he used every day. Three minutes later, hackers had full access to the systems Betterment uses to communicate with millions of customers, and they used those systems to send a crypto scam from Betterment's own channels. Within two weeks,...

She thought she made a friend over text. What started as a wrong number turned into months of trust, a crypto investment that looked like it was working, and a loss she never saw coming. It's called pig butchering, and it's one of the fastest growing scams in the world. The man behind this $73 million operation pleaded guilty to all of it. Then he disappeared.

In December 2025, hackers nearly knocked out power to half a million people in Poland during a brutal cold snap. The attack was traced back to Russian intelligence. State-sponsored hacking is an industry. There are org charts. Salaries. Military ranks. And a recruitment pipeline that can turn a criminal hacker into a government asset. In this episode, we break down how these groups actually operat...

Malone Lam was 20 years old when he stole $263 million in Bitcoin from a single victim using nothing but a phone call. He bought a $3.8 million Pagani, a $2 million watch, and spent $500,000 a night at clubs handing out Birkin bags. A month later, the FBI raided his Miami mansion. This is how he did it, how he got caught, and why a couple in Connecticut got kidnapped because of it.

A model and actress with millions of followers fell for an AI deepfake scam and lost $118,000 in a single day. In this episode, we break down exactly how a criminal syndicate trapped her on a video call for 24 hours, what made this scam nearly impossible to detect, and how you can make sure it doesn't happen to you.

Keonne Rodriguez and his Co-founder William Lonergan Hill is in federal prison for creating Bitcoin privacy software. We explain how Bitcoin tracking works, what Samourai Wallet actually did, and why the government's own regulator said Rodriguez didn't break the law before prosecutors charged him anyway. Sign the petition demanding a pardon for the founders.

pcTattletale founder catches chargers for "catch a cheater app" Monitoring software is everywhere. Parents use it, employers use it, and it's completely legal to buy. So why is Bryan Fleming facing 15 years in federal prison for selling it? Today we break down the pcTattletale case, the legal line between legitimate monitoring and criminal surveillance, and what happens when a company that sold "1...

Breach after Breach after Breach Another data breach headline you scrolled past. We get it. But that numbness is exactly what cybercriminals are counting on. In this episode, we unpack the breach landscape and give you a practical framework for deciding when to panic and when to shrug. Plus: what actually happens when your data hits the dark web, and the one action that stops most identity theft c...

Two cybersecurity professionals, Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Martin, just pleaded guilty to launching the exact ransomware attacks they were hired to stop. One was an incident response manager at Sygnia. The other was a ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint. Together with a third accomplice, they attacked five U.S. companies using off the shelf malware.

The Rapper and the Hacker A few weeks ago, the guy behind the 2016 Bitfinex hack walked out of prison after serving just 14 months. His wife, who helped launder the money while building a rap career as "Razzlekhan," served eight months. In this episode, we break down how he actually pulled off the hack, why the security architecture failed, and how law enforcement finally caught them five and a ha...

The billionaire scam kingpin is finally in custody. On January 6th, Cambodian authorities arrested Chen Zhi. By January 7th, he was on a plane to Beijing in handcuffs. Meanwhile, the scam compounds in Cambodia keep running. This is the update on Chen Zhi.

The UK government issued a secret order demanding backdoor access to any iPhone user's encrypted data. Apple's response was to disable the security feature for the entire country. Here's why that matters for everyone.

Europol calls it Violence as a Service. You pay, someone else throws the grenade. And the person throwing it is probably 16. Operation GRIMM just swept up 193 people across eleven countries. But the arrests aren't the story. The story is the online black market that's recruiting teenagers through Discord servers and gaming chats to carry out bombings, shootings, and contract killings. Recruiters b...

In 2025, North Korea's state-sponsored hackers shattered their own previous record by stealing over $2 billion in cryptocurrency in a single year. In one hack they stole $1.5 billion from Bybit. It was the largest crypto hack in history. We break down how a country thats been cut off and ostracized by many countries, has built a cyber program on par with G7 nations.

Someone stole $400,000 worth of lobster meat bound for Costco. No weapons. No violence. No high-speed chase. Just a spoofed email, a fake website, a fake driver's license, and a truck. The seafood bandits drove off in broad daylight.

He was the DEA's chief spokesman, a boring government PR job. But after leaving, Garrison Courtney reinvented himself as something far more exciting: a covert CIA operative running classified missions in Africa. For four years, he convinced defense contractors to put him on their payroll as "commercial cover," promised them lucrative government contracts that would never come, and duped real intel...

What if every WiFi router could track you without a phone in your pocket? German researchers just proved it's possible, and the system is already everywhere. This is the surveillance tech from The Dark Knight, except instead of Batman destroying it after one use, it's permanently embedded in every building you walk into. No cameras. No warning. Just radio waves that see through walls.

A flight attendant noticed something weird. There were two WiFi networks with the same name. That one observation unravels a six-year operation where an IT guy named Michael Clapsis, used a $100 device to steal credentials from passengers at airports and on flights across Australia. We break down how evil twin attacks actually work, and what actually keeps you safe on public WiFi (spoiler: it's no...

How a Lithuanian Man Stole Over $100 Million from Google and Facebook with fake invoices. Evaldas Rimasauskas pulled off one of the largest corporate frauds in history. No hacking. No malware. No compromised networks. Just fake emails and invoices sent to the right people at the right time. Business Email Compromise, or BEC, costs companies $2.9 billion a year. In this episode, we break down exact...