Cyber Crime Junkies

Romance Scams, Space Breaches, and a Nike Heist Nobody Saw Coming | CHAOS Panel

Cyber Crime Junkies. Host David Mauro. Season 8 Episode 21

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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