This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished • Graham Cluley

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 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.

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