How a Minecraft Scammer Stole $16,500,000

Start learning on Brilliant for free today: https://brilliant.org/fern. Our viewers get 20% off an annual premium subscription. It’s a great way to support our channel while building new skills (ad). This is the story of the Minecraft scammer who hacked Twitter (or X) and Elon Musk. Shoutout to the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast and their episode with Gregg Benett: https://soundcloud.com/cybercrimemagazine/losing-identity-and-bitcoin-getting-hacked-by-sim-swapping-gregg-bennett Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wxpxm7uq90wULrjsGvFmW-qJeMb2p2bUg8FaJa7fGqo/edit?usp=share_link Music: Artlist Flint - Don’t open (Instrumental) Wav Haven - Same Ones (Instrumental) Fabien Fustinoni - Beauty in a Dark Place Jonathan Guerstein - Pulse Kyle Preston - Lurking Danger Lance Conrad - Waiting and Hoping - Stripped Version Jimmy Svensson - Connect Now Jimmy Svensson - Bad Connection Theatre of Delays - Pulse Danny Shields - Cybernetic Reflection The Magnetic Buzz - Shadows in Motion Florian - Forward Ever Backward Never - Instrumental version Flint - Infraspace - Stripped Version Jürgen Brischar - Get Down Tonight Frank Bentley - Its a Fast Life - Instrumental version Albalak - Ghost Mantis Theatre of Delays - Monochrome Captain Joz - I Got Money - Instrumental version Or Chausha - No Decides Neon Ridge - We All Float Epidemic Sounds Felix Johansson Carne - Fade Away Josh Gram - Get Lost (Instrumental Version) Ballpoint - 4 years Dream Cave - Mystical Tension Wikimedia Commons Mozart - Requiem (Krips) - VIII. Lacrimosa Additional music by Aron Krause-Arlt using Splice _____ Armchair documentaries, almost weekly