153 episodes
What the Hack with Adam Levin Loud Tree Media
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4.5 • 188 Ratings
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"What the Hack with Adam Levin" is the award-winning weekly true cybercrime podcast--the place to hear memorable stories and get good advice.
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Axton Betz-Hamilton Gets the Shock of a Lifetime (Part 2)
Growing up in the shadow of child identity theft can be a struggle. For Axton Betz-Hamilton, her discovery of the culprit led to the shock of a lifetime. In the second installment of this two-part episode, we examine the massive financial and emotional toll of finding out a loved one wasn’t all that they seemed, and how to recover. Also discussed: stalkerware apps.
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Axton Betz-Hamilton Goes Looking For Her Identity Thief (Part 1)
By the time most people find out that they’ve been the victim of child identity theft, their credit is trashed. That’s what happened to Axton Betz-Hamilton. And like most victims of child identity theft, she was targeted by someone she knew. In the first installment of this two-part episode, the mystery of who stole Axton’s identity unravels in a very unexpected direction.
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Paul Raffile Fights Sextortion No Matter What
Paul Raffile was in national security and corporate threat assessment before (almost) running human exploitation investigations for a major social media company (therein lies this week’s tale). He talked with us about this "silent epidemic” and vanishing job offers.
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Beth Should Have Dated the IT Guy
Beth sent more than $26,000 to a man she met on Tinder. It was a romance scam, but one that brought complex storytelling, nuanced psychology and even acting skills to bear in a way that shocked even us. Check out this week’s episode to hear just how “good” romance scammers can be.
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Kara Swisher Calls Out the Man Babies of Big Tech
Kara Swisher has been covering Silicon Valley since the early days, and she’s made a ton of enemies the old fashioned way (by telling the truth about the new robber barons of our digital lives). In a new memoir called Burn Book, she pulls the curtain back on a world run by powerful babies.
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Elizabeth Warren Tackles Big Tech
Elizabeth Warren put the kibosh on bad banking practices with her vision for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and now, with the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, she’s taking on Big Data. She joined us to talk about reigning in the Wild West of online life.
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Customer Reviews
Excellent work!!!
It’s hard to find a decent and informative podcast nowadays. This one definitely worth checking. Good stories, a great source of information and learnings about cybersecurity and internet crimes! Go for it!
Nothing short of a must listen!
The gentleman on What the Hack have created a podcast that delivers amazing stories on cybercrime, which helps to understand not just the crime(s) but those whom are affected! With compassion, understanding, a little humor and a lot of knowledge, this podcast is a must hear for every online user today! Love it!
Title theft
I’ve heard of this issue from the bigger pockets podcast and forums. The easiest way to keep your property title from being stolen is to put a $100 or so lean on the property. Before the title can be transferred the lien holder has to be contacted to make sure thenkein has been cleared. That puts friction in the transaction to slow or stop it.
Maybe contact them to do a deeper dive on the whole situation.