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"What the Hack?" is the award-winning true cybercrime podcast--the place to hear memorable stories and get good advice. Make yourself harder to find, harder to hit: [DeleteMe ](https://joindeleteme.com)
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Episode 254: Even If You're Not Online, You're Online
Craig doesn't have Facebook. He's not a gamer. He builds things, fixes things, grows things, has an assortment of antique chainsaws. So why is his nam...
When the Bait Bites Back
A former military guy goes viral, but not in the way he'd hoped. With fake profiles popping up by the dozen using his photos to scam lonelyhearts out...
Episode 252: Surveillance In America, Pt 4: No Warrant Required
The ACLU's Nate Freed Wessler won Carpenter v. United States and changed how the Fourth Amendment applies to your phone. But data brokers found a work...
Episode 251: Surveillance In America, Pt 3: Just Say No
Suveillance-for-profit bros say they can eliminate crime in America, but what about the Fourth Amendment? This week: a 1950s numbers racket and some r...
Episode 250: Becky Holmes and the Future of Fraud
Online fraud isn't just getting smarter, it's getting personal. Becky Holmes, author of "The Future of Fraud," traces con artists from ancient Rome to...
Episode 249: The End of the Constitution Had to Start Somewhere
Sen. Ron Wyden, the longest-serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the ACLU’s Kia Hamadanchy and Marcy Wheeler explain why the deadline...
Episode 248: Open Source Intelligence and the Death of Obscurity
Data as duh-duh. It's all is out there—indexed, sold, and weaponized. Open source intelligence turns public records into a hacker's playground, your L...
Episode 247: Ghost Murmur and the Real Assault on Privacy
The whisper: A downed U.S. pilot was located by tracking his heartbeat from 40 miles away. Real, or fake news to rattle Iran? Benn Jordan and physicis...
Episode 246: Trafficked: Part Three, Asian Scam Compounds
You’ve heard how the compounds work. This week we go inside one—through the eyes of Small Q, an Ugandan musician who was trafficked in and got out—als...
A Professional Noticer of Things
Christopher Anderson has spent thirty years in high-stakes situations—war zones, sinking boats, the current White House. What he’s learned about the i...
Episode 244: Inside Tracy Chou's Block Party for Social Media
One of Time Magazine’s Women of the Year and a vocal advocate for diversity in tech, Tracy Chou built Block Party after discovering firsthand that the...
Episode 243: Criminal Mind vs. Criminal Mind
Jim Clemente built a career reading criminals. FBI special agent, behavioral profiler, Unabomber case, the hit series Criminal Minds. Then someone bou...
Episode 242: Surveillance In America, Pt 2: Flock You Very Much
Flock Safety says their cameras have never been hacked. Benn Jordan and Jason Koebler watched themselves on one from their homes. This week: a deep di...
Al Franken Holds a Mock Senate Hearing on Privacy with Siri and Alexa (Bonus)
No deep fake here. This week, Al Franken does his own impersonations of Bernie Sanders, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Sherrod Brown and Susan Colli...
Episode 241: Surveillance In America, Pt 1: Somebody's Watching You
Benn Jordan—musician, acoustic scientist, and one of the sharpest minds on surveillance technology—joins 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and the ACLU’s Jay...
Episode 240: Who’s Watching the Watchers?
Feeling watched? Join us as Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark breaks down the new reality of digital surveillance. From school apps to AI scams,...
Episode 239: Is AARP Doing More than the FBI to Stop Scams?
Online fraud isn’t just annoying. It’s a national crisis, one that may have drained $158 billion from the U.S. economy last year alone. In this episod...
Episode 238: The Phone Call that Broke the Bank
MGM lost $100 million in 2023. Then Caesars paid $15 million ransom. A few phone calls shut down Vegas, highlighting the destruction that one fast tal...
Episode 237: The Internet is Groundhog Day
This week, we're going to the movies. Virginia Heffernan joins us to talk about Groundhog Day (the movie), surveillance, and why online systems reward...
Episode 236: The Con: Part Two, Asian Scam Compounds
After exposing the scam compounds and human trafficking behind today’s fraud economy, we follow the money, the power, and the few pressure points—from...
Episode 235: Part 1: Asian Scam Compounds
You’ve seen the scam texts. This week we go inside a global scam economy to expose human trafficking networks, lawless economic zones, and fortified c...
Episode 234: The Ralph Naders of Cybercrime?
Bob Lord (Yahoo, DNC, CISA) and Lauren Zabierek (Harvard’s Belfer Center, CISA) don't think cybersecuirty (or lack of it) should be the customer’s pro...
Episode 233: How Brett Johnson Made $160,000 a Week
Former cybercrime kingpin Brett Johnson didn’t just break the law; he built the tools still used by criminals today. He's back for another episode to...
Episode 232: The Very Private Digital New Year Episode
In this year-end check-in, DeleteMe’s OSINT expert, Nicholas Olsen, explains just how much of your life is publicly exposed—and why “low-value targets...
Episode 231: WTH 2025: Laptop Farms, Campus Cults, and the End of Anonymity
From AI regulation fights and North Korean laptop farms to Nigerian campus cults, the human toll of online crime, and the death of online anonymity it...
Episode 230: The Cursor Moved at 2 A.M.
A deadbolt clicks. This email, that voice--they sound all right. Then things go sideways. This week, 911 Cyber CEO Marc Raphael joins the pod to explo...
Episode 229: Why Most Cybersecurity Advice Is Wrong
How do you stay safe online? (Wrong answers only.) Avoid public Wi-Fi, QR codes, charging stations. Cyber OG Bob Lord (Yahoo, DNC, CISA) wrote an open...
Episode 228: Paul Raffile on the Sextortion Economy
Sextortion scams targeting teenage boys doubled this year—and Paul Raffile says the platforms knew it was happening. Learn how Instagram's default set...
Episode 227: Twas the Week Before Cyber Monday
The giant glittering scam and fraud trap of the holidays is here. Beau reunites with former co-hosts Adam Levin and Travis Taylor to talk about about...
Episode 226: On Digital Fingerprints and Dirty Money
Jeff Williams on the business of moving money: who gets blocked, what slips through, and why checking the right boxes doesn’t always mean a win in the...
Episode 234: Big Breaches and Click Bots to AI and Beyond
When a young engineer uncovered a sizeable click fraud situation at Google, he discovered a bigger problem; namely, the perverse ingenuity that drives...
Episode 223: Jackals of Trust: A Short History of Cybercrime
Cybercrime expert Gary Warner joins to discuss Nigerian confraternities, the "campus cults" rooted in idealism that morphed into a multi-billion dolla...
Episode 223: How to Make Your House Invisible
When scammers tried to steal Graceland, it seemed like a fluke, but deed fraud is very much on the rise. Del Denney of the Land Trust Company explains...
Episode 222: Heather Barnhart Hunts Digital Ghosts
Forensic expert Heather Barnhart (SANS Institute) decoded Osama Bin Laden's phones and helped convict quadruple murderer Brian Kohberger. Learn how su...
Episode 221: Seth Godin's Anti-Spam Playbook: Be Awesome
Marketing visionary Seth Godin explains how the Internet got hijacked by an attention-stealing spam economy that keeps us in an endless loop of badly...
Episode 220: The $5,000 Mistake: Inside a Facebook Scam
A locked account. A call for help. What happened next left Tony questioning everything he thought he knew about the Internet. This week is about trust...
Episode 219: 3 Ways Not to Lose Everything
Former federal prosecutor Tom O’Malley takes us inside the strange, high-stakes world of modern fraud—where victims are presumed guilty, families lose...
Episode 218: The Data Grift Everyone Missed
Every click, swipe, and post fuels the data economy. Credit cards, apps, even maps—our lives are scraped, stitched, and sold. It feels like a heist, a...
Episode 217: The Wrong Dan Sturman
It started with a slow roll of weird emails and phone calls. And then award-winning filmmaker Dan Sturman found himself in the crosshairs of serious h...
Episode 216: Who’s Watching the Watchers?
Feeling watched? Join us as Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark breaks down the new reality of digital surveillance. From school apps to AI scams,...