This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions
A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of failures that ended with a $2 million data breach ...
29 Huhti 1h 4min
Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not
A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools - handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm - boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in over 2...
22 Huhti 51min
This AI company leaked its own code. It's also built something terrifying
A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice's Piazza San Marco - and is offering to sell access to whoever wants it. The asking price? A frankly insulting $60...
15 Huhti 50min
LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you're job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have AD...
8 Huhti 41min
This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished
A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 - and now sits on a fortune worth $400 million. There's just one small problem: the access co...
1 Huhti 45min
Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie
A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin - signing his extortion emails from ...
26 Maalis 40min
This clever scam nearly hijacked a tech CEO's Apple ID
In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg - involving MFA fatigue, real Apple alerts, a convincing su...
19 Maalis 54min
How not to steal $46 million from the US government
A Wikipedia security engineer accidentally wakes a dormant JavaScript worm that hadn't stirred since 2024 - and within minutes, giant woodpecker images are plastered across the internet's favourite en...
12 Maalis 41min
