Podcast Episodes

The Lorebook Cult

Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of exploitation, self-harm, and abuse. Listener discretion is advised.

A network called 764 has turned abuse into currency. It spread through Disc…

Published on 4 months ago

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 moderator identities, source code, and shattered the my…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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 not as much as the person they're in trouble with…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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 image, captured without his knowledge in his…

Published on 5 months ago

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 up to 10 years in prison. A major AI image gener…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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 us—we had a blast listening.

Note: We mention and …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

The $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist & Vibe Coding Beats Big Tech Interviews

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Published on 6 months ago

Hotline Hacked Vol. 10

Double Digits! Featuring caller stories of sarcastic keyboard pranks, failed SEO birthday gifts, vending machine hijinks and more.

Hacked is brought to you by Push Security—helping companies stop ide…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

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 new: identity. The Snowflake breach proved it—atta…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

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 Pirate Roberts," and how law enforcement finally br…

Published on 7 months ago