I Let a Hacker Steal My Identity For 28 Days 

i believe you 😉

nahhhhhhh

ok

Thank you

Hahahahah this is to funny😂

Was waiting for it the entire video

it wouldn't have helped much anyway

A VPN would probably know their product couldn't help against any of this. VPNs offer a vague promise of "security" but only pretects against some very specific things. That fruit-scented water bottle would probably do more to stop those two than Nord VPN and surfshark combined!

I'd either think: the VPN is useless as they still managed to gather all that or I'd think he's advertising something he doesn't even use himself.

Well it does make few things harder, for instance, after hacking the wifi, with vpn, there is still one more layer to hack. But for dedicated hacker it's nothing.

Ayooo it's cz. Awesome

loll

Never thought I’d see him here

@@jhoncuadra1884same

Yesss

That would be really cool

yes!!!

that would b hilarious

omfg yessssss

chill out lil bro

:0 it’s ZMDE!

Hey ZMDE you look purple like

@@WilliamAftonLovesChildern *fnaf music starts playing in the background *

@@OhNoMeDead ru-vid.comLpau5V2jLAE?si=XxBQEevGdB_HH3Qz

100% correct. This could have been so much worse.

Might be simple, but just informing him about them buying a house and transfering stuff. Also there is the whole adress + family = blackmail situation D: Realy scary stuff

Right. They didn’t want to actually ruin his life. They weren’t malicious, they were just showing him how easy it would be if they actually wanted to. They could have truly ruined his life through and through if they wanted.

@@CidTheNadieye they don’t need a month to do that, any decent hacker only needs a couple days to get all the information and blackmail material needed. it’s scary very scary

i love how this video shows a possible scenario of a hacker but on the other site hacking is more like sitting in front of the computer and looking at a terminal

Agreed. I am curious how they went back on everything they'd lined up, including the loan, bitcoin and property purchase, without actually getting Zac in trouble.

Part 2 will be in 10 years when Zac gets raided by Interpol/FBI for running a multi billion dollar criminal empire he actually never heard of.

His videos always end way too abruptly, it's like his thing lol

no comment officer

Ok

​@@ZacAlsopok

@@ZacAlsop ok

@@ZacAlsoplol

This is actually the dumbest thing I have ever seen someone do on RU-vid.

Its like for every normal person that the Internet only exist 1year ago wtf a Profi hacker can easily kill you or get you forever in jail and worse things

They couldve gone sooo much further! fake his income, put a adress in another nation and ask for a 1 million loan from the bank!

Facts

Anyone could do alot ofthese things when someone willingly gives you their NIN and driver's license numbers lol.. he basically knew what he was doing

😂😂😂😂

To show how dangerous murderers are

😅😂😂😂

It's actually a good idea, the killer would have to just put him in a situation in which he would surely be murdered if it was real

Mr. Beast did that video already

Cameraman Scott has cameraman reflexes

@@ZacAlsop Past work experiences: ninja

I'm going into frontend development :-) I'm using web security as my gateway into backend development. Good luck on your projects

Even though its probably a house in the sticks of Turkey lmao

@@ErikHosteterspain

how give the home to someone u gook

Looks to be spain

no spain follows eu anti money laundering laws@@wowdesigns3417

No that’s sam

Nah now he knows how someone could do it and can always stay safe

@@Jayess-c there's many ways

Kinky

​@Jayess-c you cant stay safe theres always a way

Hacking is a lot more than movie magic lets us think! 🙂

That’s what most of hacking is; social engineering and petty theft that allow you to steal items that provide you with the info you need to steal somebody’s identity. The people you get phone calls from pretending to be big companies and the people who gain access to your accounts are usually just people who’ve found your details by chance in a data leak.

Really ​@@tekki2

@@0xReip aye - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JsVtHqICeKE.html That's why pen testing is a thing specifically for things like this. Once someone is into a secure building acting like they belong, they can do basically whatever they want. That's why folks actually hire people specifically to hack them *physically* that to see how they can make buildings and such more secure. In an ever more digital age, you'd best hope that folks are being ever more physically secure - and the scary part is: they aren't

True

It is, but that's the importance of limiting your digital footprint. Otherwise you'll make it too easy for people to learn way too much about ya.

There's tons online you can find

@@marianna3253 this guys make a all new level

Agreed I thought that was the one thing missing from the video.

​@@Tibialstone7 Want good security for your (future) company? Here are some tips: - Alarm in your building connected to the police. - Camera's with motion detector so you get notifications when someone is around - PiHole, blocks all unwilling domains like tiktok and ads which can be dangerous - Enroll a zero trust policy (identify with cards, fingerprint or anyform of 2step verification on login in. - delete cookies everytime you shut down the browser - No passwords safes (Your mind is the vault) - Check the router every hour for unknown devices and put on whitelists so you only have certain IP's open in your network which are known devices - Don't write ANYTHING on paper. - Have a shredder for receides or other stuff where is information on and burn everything that is left on BBQ friday. - Have a company that is picking up your garbage every week (secure paper which have enforced cars/vans) - Don't save anything on the computer as in contracts of employees or ID's/driver licenses. Print them out once received on the computer, put the copies in a locker under your bed and flash the harddrive of the computer which received it with a big magnet. - Don't own any account on socialmedia, just make an account, place your vacation on it for people to see, remove it after 2 days when you had your attention.

Unfortunately there is not much you can do as an everyday average Joe. All the best practices like having multiple secure passwords, minimizing exposure of personal data on social media or even shredding bank statements/ other letters with personal info become useless if they go as far as to break in your home or spoof your WiFi connection lol. You'll have to sacrifice every bit of convenience you are currently enjoying or be some serious security nut job that knows his stuff. Especially if your a public persona that deep fake stuff is scary.

Glad I left a good impression :)

please come into out school!!!@@solomongilbert3186

@@solomongilbert3186the man himself!!! Seriously, great work man. The deep fake and mobile emulation was just mind blowing, I always wondered how they got around that without tricking the target into recording their own phrase. Crazy what you could do if you were a “bad guy”🤯

Yeah, when they had access to his youtube account, and the ability to deepfake his face... I was sure zac in the video would suddenly turn out to be Solomon the whole time.

#1 Don't challenge hackers to hack you #2-∞ Everything else

Simple, 1- Don't chuck important information in the bin. 2- Make sure your home is secure and hard to break in. 3- Don't give personal details online such as social media. 4- Always Update account details at least once a month. 5- Make sure internet router is strongly secured. This won't fully protect you but it should be some what enough.

With enough time (which translates to money as well) pretty much everyone can get hacked. The only thing you can properly do is what Surge suggested above. Also make use of 2FA wherever you can, use a (local and private) password vault/manager and always install security updates.Try to adopt the phrase: "never trust, always verify" into your daily routine.

This was mostly breaking and entering and one of these guys wasn't a hacker. The closest thing done to hacking was DNS spoofing with a WiFi Pineapple but that only would have worked if Zac ignored security warnings from his browser.

​@@ElliotGuy-tp4siuhmm no.... IF he used a secure dns not the default isp dns THEN the fake website fail. Otherwise, the pc/phone just use the fake dns server

Yeah, it’s a hard one to deal with, icl. Like, can i even protect myself against the ‘evil wifi machine’? 😭

@@crains1429 "evil wifi machine" LMAO THAT'S WHAT IM SAYING HAHA

​@@crains1429well, you can protect yourself against everything. Specifically against the "evil WiFi machine" would actually work a VPN. Of course, nothing is 100% secure and all that, but having all the WiFi data encrypted would have really complicated Solomon's life

Unfortunately you really cannot protect yourself fully if a team of genius criminals decide to target you. Unless you lived a 100% paranoid life with better security than most government agencies. Luckily odds are youre not worth a team of genius hackers’ time and if you are victim to something like this you will eventually get your money back. best to just install cctv, keep everything locked, and shred important info before you throw it out

​​​@@crains1429here's a very good technical video on the wifi pineapple, best way to protect yourself is to learn about how the attacks work ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EMFIUDfQHCI.html

Turkey I think

Cruzcampo beer, most likley Spain! @@tommasobarbolani2147

@@tommasobarbolani2147 More likely Cyprus

@@tommasobarbolani2147 Spain, you can tell by the Cruzcampo beer. Probably in Catalonia, near the sea, in La Costa Brava and no more than 15km from the sea. I spent my summer vacation there. If they went easy on him it could cost around 150,000 euro.

@@micaso1there’s an extradition treaty between the UK and Spain so no, not Spain

I mean shirley it's not that easy

It's that easy, and don't call me Shirley

They know how to hack, but can’t make a banging video like this

True, but you did hire a criminal that could keep you at gunpoint@@ZacAlsop

@@ZacAlsop exactly what I would expect Tony and Solomon- I mean the Zachs.

Quick tip: never shred your documents papers since there's people out there who can recover them like puzzles instead just burn them to ashes and than bury those ashes with sand or anything than throw them away.

Yeah thats what i been doing, burning every piece of paper and then bury them in the garden 😂 @@JustFireYT

Nah, they would be prime suspects if so

​@@crains1429they would be at some cave in the caribean when the police finds out lol

@@eriottomakurashi right, they’ll always be a step ahead lol

Well this is scripted and done by professionals. Most "hackers" don't target individuals to this extent instead targeting crucial data to get credit cards and the like. You figure these guys went out of the way to get and change the mail where a normal crook will just dress like a mailman or put on a mask and steal your mail directly.

Wasn’t that a movie?

​@@acutelilmint8035tell me the name

@@acutelilmint8035 Common theme in those movies. Could be any really lol.

movie name? @@acutelilmint8035

So sorry to hear that, the effects are really awful. It took months to get the money back and that was bad enough. My thoughts go out to you, hope you can get it sorted.

@@ZacAlsophow do we protect ourselves from this though? Video should’ve touched on this

@@ZacAlsop Nice one Zac! Hoping mine gets sorted out soon but will most likely have to declare myself bankrupt...! "It is what it is" though. Hope your video helps others show how easy it is for something like this to happen and they're more precautious!

If someone really wants to find you, they can. Telling people you're going to live in the woods is more identifying than you think. Edit: For example, I know your full name, birth date, location, etc. I have no malicious intent so I wouldn't panic, but it only took me a few hours to pinpoint things and that's without doing a deep dive. So if you ran off into the woods I need only look around where you live. A thermal drone would make the job much easier. Take care and be safer online, friend.

​@@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage😂😂😂

​@@slightlyaboveaveragebutaveragebro thinks he's scary 💀

@@Drifter-ws9rs Totally dude lmao

​@@Drifter-ws9rsman's a ghost, ya sure?

Mate a VPN doesn't protect you against everything, and certainly not anything mentioned in this video

@@thomaskeig_ its just internet security mate calm down. This is an obvious extreme example not that deep

😂

I used to work for a big rental company, we had the same thing happen but they then used that network to open the safe and stole all the keys to the cars (plus some other stuff that had international ramifications). Didn’t take the cars, sent a ransom email saying if we don’t get x by x then we will do this to every location in the U.K. and you’ll be out of business. The company paid and the keys were still on site buried off the side of the car park. Crazy stuff. We had to sign NDAs to not talk about it but seeing as I haven’t worked for them for like 9 years and I’m not saying which rental company and it’s highly unlikely they’ll see this, oh well. Mad thing is they would have actually been bankrupt in the U.K. as it was just before summer and getting all the spare keys would have one cost them millions in lost revenue and two wouldn’t have guaranteed nothing else would happen. We were never told what else they did but they did have all of our information as employees, and also we were never told if they were caught or not. They didn’t even tell us they paid but we figured they did as how would they know where the keys were…

Is it really that hilarious? We had phones called blackberrys, we have computers called apples.

Ducky USB

WiFi pineapple is the hardware, it's a rogue access point / router that's developed for pentesting.

A lot of IT stuff is called like food. I mean look at all the Android OS Versions (Cupcake, Donut, Macadamia Nut Cookie, the next one is called Vanilla Ice Cream). Or stuff like Raspberry PI, TOR The Onion Router, ApplePi-Baker etc...

If you're essentially nobodies, no one is really going to mind but you..

@@Hex-kt2vr True, but you never know. If the wrong person rummages your trash, they can steal your id and ruin you financially

​@@Hex-kt2vrbetter safe than sorry

what i meant by it, is thatis that it works in the theifs favour - you'll likely not cause them any problem'.@@chrystianaw8256

what did your dad do for work?

Same thing w my dad

password managers not really

@@xXRedErrorXx You're correct. A password manager itself does not really help. Using secure and individual passwords does. I wanted to keep this short and low on technical details, thus the inaccuracy. Also it makes a huge difference if you are targeted like Zac has been or as is common in industry espionage or a service you use is hacked. Different measures for different scenarios.

@@skorp5677 I don't think it would have mattered. With the Pineapple (WIFI) they would just have stolen his sessions tokens/cookies, and would have used an already signed in session to be logged in. Even if the website was very secure (Session to IP pinning for example) - it wouldn't have mattered as they'd have been on the same wifi network and shared the IP.

Plus they had physical access to his office. I think I saw a desktop machine in there... They could have plugged in a USB KeyGrabber / USB Remote Access Tool and take over his desktop when his browser was still logged into everything

@@xXRedErrorXx Password managers are great if you use the right kinda one with proper steps to use it and protect it. For example never use cloud based password managers only use ones that use a local file on your computer that you control something like keepass. Secondly you would need to protect that file with 2fa with physical key something like yubikey that requires you to have an password but also an physical key you plug into the computer to access the password vault.

That's literally what the guys' company does. All Zac had to do to make it legal was sign the consent form saying they can do all the stuff to him.

They did it by asking him to give them access to the laptop for a quick scene, the video wouldn't progress without it. :D

You can also tell the video is faked because he said he could USB kill the PC, no PC actually dies due to an USB killer.

@@Follina. If I'm remembering right, USB killer can only go as far as destroying the programs inside the computer right? Aint no way that USB is enough to fry the entire content inside computer.

Correct, even have using the Pineapple to create fake websites to get staff to attempt re-authentication to capture the credentials, at 3AM which is a bit odd Zaks staff to be in the office, maybe? The credentials he captured must have not been for an account that had MFA enabled. Instagram of all platforms. But I believe even Instagram would send an email to grant access from new location or mobile number code required? So, there is a little bit of a gap in the information on how that part was achieved.

@@itsnotme8182 the usb killer kills the USB controller at a minimum, but there's a good chance that it's able to kill all of the components of the computer! That bit is real, look them up, they're cool (yet destructive) bits of kit

Equipment and years of experience and lots of knowledge

What i'm not getting is how they immediately got devices to connect to it, maybe they broke in first got the real wifi password, setup an identical fake network on the pineapple etc? would be great to see a detailed behind the scenes video

​@@cnafyiProbably just spoofed the wifi name and had the PC submit the credentials to the pineapple instead of the normal router

@@LuxuriantCarrot are you sure? I’m feeling like there is some mechanism in at least more modern wpa2 and after routers to prevent that?

@@cnafyi i'm thinking the average person just assumes auto sign in without a password is turned on, so they would see an identical network name except with no password and think it's legit. not sure how they disconnected devices from the existing network though. maybe they took down the existing network somehow.

exactly

yeah thats the point hahahah, you get the gist, then buy the books if you want more

dont put info online

@@tiagomoraes1510 To be fair they literally broke into his physical office

😂

Then you might also like videos about certain RU-vidrs who are able to expose scammers, such as Scammer Payback (for that channel if you’re interested, just make sure the host in the video actually has blue hair so you’re not fooled by scammers trying to impersonate his channel). I can guarantee you’ll get some satisfaction of these scambaiters crushing a lot of scam call centers and destroying the scammers’ computers using the same hacking systems but for the purpose of stopping scammers from continuing their scam streaks.

Imagine that 😶‍🌫️