{"podcast":{"title":"Smashing Security","slug":"smashing-security-453614","podcast_index_feed_id":453614,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/c478d684-038f-4b13-8507-bc32af486a2c","website_url":"https://www.smashingsecurity.com","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/8/26/16/f4c118ba-43eb-4d45-8d86-36cf4c50ff73_595052322-a371c304-01cf-42c1-ab03-e0035a046f63.jpg","author":"Graham Cluley","episode_count":478,"summary":"Stories from the world of hacking, cybersecurity, and rogue AI. Smashing Security isn’t your typical tech podcast. Hosted by cybersecurity keynote speaker and industry veteran Graham Cluley, it serves up weekly tales of cybercrime, hacking horror stories, privacy blunders, and tech mishaps - all with sharp insight, a sense of humour, and zero tolerance for tech waffle. Winner of the best and most entertaining cybersecurity podcast awards in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024, Smashing Security has had over ten million downloads. Past guests include Garry Kasparov, Mikko Hyppönen, and Jack Rhysider. Follow the podcast on Bluesky at @smashingsecurity.com ( https://bsky.app/profile/smashingsecurity.com ) , and subscribe for free in your favourite podcast app. New episodes released at 7pm EST every Wednesday (midnight UK).","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T10:20:27.006972+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smashing-security-453614"},"episode":{"title":"This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished","slug":"this-man-hid-400-million-in-a-fishing-rod-then-it-vanished","published_at":"2026-04-01T23:00:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smashing-security-453614/this-man-hid-400-million-in-a-fishing-rod-then-it-vanished","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smashing-security-453614","url":"https://www.smashingsecurity.com/461","audio_url":"https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/7e6f78bd-b086-44c7-8360-80ab6cf75e0c/stream.mp3","summary":"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 codes were tucked inside his fishing rod case, which has mysteriously vanished. Or has it? Because this week, one of his frozen wallets suddenly woke up and moved $35 million - and someone had to identify themselves to do it. Meanwhile, Ajax Football Club scores a spectacular cyber own-goal, as a data breach that the club claimed affected \"a few hundred\" fans turns out to may have exposed the personal details of 300,000 supporters - along with the ability to steal match tickets and quietly remove people from the stadium ban list. All this and much more in episode 461 of the \"Smashing Security\" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest journalist Danny Palmer. EPISODE LINKS: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email, publish photos and documents - Reuters. Windows PCs crash three times as often as Macs, report says - TechSpot. Wife used CCTV to steal $176M of husband’s crypto, UK court told - Coin Telegraph. Gardaí open €30m bitcoin virtual wallet, first of 12 accessed since seizure in 2019 - Irish Times. Irish Drug Dealer’s Lost BTC Stack Worth $400m Has Woken Up - Arkham. Ajax FC data breach exposes 300,000 fans, hacker steals tickets an stadium ban details - Cybernews. Small Prophets - BBC iPlayer. RPG Taverns - Dungeons and Dragons tavern in London. Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff) SPONSORS: Action1 - Keep your systems safe (and your sanity intact) with the patch management platform that just works. The best part? Your first 200 endpoints are free, forever, with n…","meta_description":"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.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2732,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/smashing-security-453614/episodes/this-man-hid-400-million-in-a-fishing-rod-then-it-vanished/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smashing-security-453614/this-man-hid-400-million-in-a-fishing-rod-then-it-vanished.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}