{"id":11788,"date":"2026-04-02T02:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/smashing-security-podcast-461-this-man-hid-400-million-in-a-fishing-rod-then-it-vanished\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:03:28","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-461-this-man-hid-400-million-in-a-fishing-rod-then-it-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/smashing-security-podcast-461-this-man-hid-400-million-in-a-fishing-rod-then-it-vanished\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #461: This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smashing Security podcast #461: This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished
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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

All this and more in episode 461 of the “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest Danny Palmer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Smashing Security podcast #461: This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,156,154,1504,54,164,166,83,175,131],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-11788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-football","category-grahamcluley","category-law-order","category-podcast","category-privacy","category-smashing-security","category-vulnerability","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}