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Hacked
Strange tales of hacking, tech, internet grifters, AI, and security with Jordan & Scott. Are internet hitmen really a thing? What does someone do with a crypto wallet full of millions and a lost password? Did a Minecraft scammer really hack the president? Hacked is a technology show about people hac...
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The Banxico Heist and a High Wire Act of Solo Podcasting
The question: can one host of a podcast that was planning to do a chatty chat episode proceed at the last minute while the other host is unfortunately...
Will the Real Velvet Sundown Please Stand Up?
The story of a hoax within a hoax within a hoax within an AI soft rock band. That and a bunch of other stories about technology.
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Gamescom 2025
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A weird little road episode intro, a little self promo...
From Street to State
We discuss the rise of China’s early patriotic hacking scene, and a new report that unravels how some of its most skilled members eventually found the...
The Escobar Phone and Imaginary Flamethrowers
We unpack how a Swedish entrepreneur used Pablo Escobar’s name to sell fake phones, flamethrowers, and crypto — and how a viral scam built on influenc...
The McDonald’s Hiring Robot Hack
We start with the AI hiring chatbot used by McDonald’s, and the vulnerability hiding beneath the conversation. What looked like some janky job appl...
BONUS: July Chatty Chat
Just for fun: an actual no script, no plan, hot mic blather-athon. If you crave a nice structured story with lots of research, give the ep we dropped...
The Texas Lottery Courier App Scandal
A London syndicate used a phone app to buy nearly every combination in the Texas Lottery—and walked away with a $95 million jackpot. In this episode,...
Danabot: The Malware Operation That infected Itself
In this episode: the inside story of Danabot, the malware-as-a-service platform that thrived in the shadows for nearly a decade—until a critical mista...
Throwback: The Malware Historian
Today malware is all nation state actors and organized crime, but in the beginning it was more about making a statement. Dan is a malware historian. H...
Hotline Hacked Vol. 13
Schools out for summer. Another collection of computer confessions and strange tales of technology.
Hacked is brought to...
The Lorebook Cult
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of exploitation, self-harm, and abuse. Listener discretion is advised.
A network cal...
The 4chan Hack
We discuss a schism years in the making — the infamous imageboard 4chan gets hacked by its own offshoot, Soyjak.party, in a breach that exposed modera...
Hotline Hacked Vol. 12
A tech worker stumbles upon mass fraud and brings receipts, a flag football prank goes very right, a teenager uses Net Send and gets in trouble — but...
WebcamGate
In 2009, a Pennsylvania high school accused sophomore Blake Robbins of dealing drugs—based on a photo secretly taken through his school-issued laptop....
The Killswitch Saboteur, AI Prompt Data Leak, and Bluetooth Chip Secrets Exposed
A former developer at Eaton Corp, Davis Lu, is convicted of deploying a kill switch script that disrupted thousands of users worldwide—he’s now facing...
Hotline Hacked Vol. 11
Hacked Discord accounts, zombie emergency alerts on TV, and a crime spree in Diablo 3—just another day. As always, thanks for sharing your calls with...
The $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist & Vibe Coding Beats Big Tech Interviews
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Hotline Hacked Vol. 10
Double Digits! Featuring caller stories of sarcastic keyboard pranks, failed SEO birthday gifts, vending machine hijinks and more.
Hacke...
The Red Teamer
Adam used to break into companies for a living—legally. As a red teamer, he watched the attack surface shift from networks to endpoints to something n...
Silk Road Founder Released + DeepSeek's Big Moment for Open Source AI + Scam Complaint Lines to Nowhere
We dive into the story of Silk Road—the infamous darknet marketplace that changed the internet. We revisit its rise under Ross Ulbricht, aka "Dread Pi...
The Year of Quantum
Quantum computing raises big questions—about security, power, and who benefits as the technology advances.
To kick off 2025, the Internat...
Hotline Hacked Vol. 9
A bunch of great stories, including a prank between brothers with video evidence, a DOS frat war, and a person who tried to buy a building with a cred...
US Soldier Arrested for Hacking + Honey Plugin Scandal + Listener Creates Bitcoin Pizza Website
We have a bunch of stories to get to, but before you listen, check out our new Youtube page we'll be putting a lot of love into in 2025: https://www.y...
Throwback: The Phantom Orchestra
Happy holidays, everyone. We’re bringing you a hacked classic to tide you over while Scott and I take a break to relax and gear up for the new year to...
Hotline Hacked Vol. 8
Let's get festive with it. Calls concerning grocery point systems, Australian internet providers, and so much more. Want to share your story? Check ou...
2024 Year in Review
It's been a wacky one. In this very loose year in review, we discuss adversarial agents being gamified for fun an profit, DNA companies changing owner...
Hacking Security Camera AI
Can you trick the AI model running locally on a security camera into thinking you're a bird (and not a burglar)? We sat down Kasimir Schulz, principle...
Hotline Hacked Vol. 7
A collection of calls, including an extremely wholesome story about a hacked internet contest and an electric guitar that changed a caller's life.
A Bot Made a Memecoin Worth Almost a Billion Dollars + McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Redux + Apple Bug Bounties
A chatty chat in which we discuss the Infinite Backrooms and the extremely profitable shock-meme-cult it spurred, a big update in the McDonald's ice c...
Unmasking a Cybercriminal With Open Source Intelligence
We wanted to know: How was USDoD, the hacker behind major data breaches, unmasked? On this episode, we trace his journey from infiltrating FBI-linked...
Hotline Hacked Vol. 6
The whole second half of this one is one long call but trust us it's worth it. A call in show with tales of hackers getting hacked back, spoofed email...
Doxing Strangers + Mexican Cartels and Timeshare Cybercrime + Facebook’s Big Password Fine
A chatty chat episode where we discuss a Harvard research project turning Meta Ray-Bans into facial recognition hardware, an Irish court case resoluti...
Number Go Up: A Conversation with Author Zeke Faux
We think Zeke Faux’s Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall is one of the best modern books about crypto. It’s a globetrotting ad...
Hotline Hacked Vol. 5
It's a five-alarm fire in the fifth instalment of our call in show. We hear from a caller who accidentally won a naval war-game by unplugging a radio,...
$10 Million in Fake AI Royalties + the 'Infinite Money Glitch' That's Just Fraud + Voter Outreach So Bad It Seemed Like Phishing
In which we discuss alleged Spotify streaming ad fraud that brought in millions, extremely poor voter outreach and an extended tangent on AI.
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Hotline Hacked Vol. 4
Fourth times a charm. Share your strange tale of technology, true hack, or computer confession at hotlinehacked.com. We discuss stealing login credent...
Hacking Bicycles + DIY Laser Exploits + the National Public Data Breach
You can do lot of damage by changing someone's bike gear at the wrong time. A collection of stories including a DIY laser mad science project that aim...
DEFCON: The Biggest Hacking Event in the World
DEFCON: The Biggest Hacking Event in the World
Every year DEFCON, the world’s biggest hacking conference, descends on Las Vegas for a wee...
CrowdStrike Incident
We all just watched one of the largest IT events in years unfold in real time with the CrowdStrike incident. We wanted to understand it better, so we...