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Romance Scams, Space Breaches, and a Nike Heist Nobody Saw Coming | CHAOS Panel
Description
Hackers aren’t stealing passwords anymore. They’re stealing what makes companies valuable.
We cover:
• The European Space Agency breach and why even elite organizations aren’t safe
• Pig butchering romance scams and how social engineering targets human psychology
• The Nike data breach where attackers stole intellectual property, not customer data
• AI voice cloning, deepfake scams, and real-world fraud attempts
• Why modern cybercrime looks more like organized crime than traditional hacking.
If you care about cybersecurity threats, ransomware groups, AI scams, social engineering attacks, or how hackers actually operate today, this episode will change how you think about risk.
Cybercrime is evolving fast.
Most defenses aren’t.
CHAPTERS
00:00 – Hackers stopped stealing passwords and started stealing everything
01:50 – Welcome to Chaos + panel intros
03:40 – Meme culture, cold weather, and why Dino has too much free time
04:25 – European Space Agency hacked twice in one month
06:00 – If rocket scientists can’t keep hackers out…
07:10 – Space nerds, Carl Sagan, and stardust detour
08:15 – Romance scams and pig butchering explained
09:20 – “Wrong number” texts and how the scam really starts
10:50 – How victims are slowly manipulated into crypto scams
12:25 – The 764 gang and psychological weaponization
13:40 – The dark twist: scammers as human trafficking victims
16:40 – Luxury lifestyles, urgency, and fake success
18:20 – Why victims don’t report scams
23:30 – Fake job offers and too-good-to-be-true salaries
24:20 – Nike breach isn’t what you think
25:45 – Why hackers skipped customer data entirely
27:10 – WorldLeaks, ransomware evolution, and pure extortion
28:35 – 1.4TB of stolen intellectual property
30:30 – Stealing what actually makes Nike… Nike
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