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These 8 Companies You've Never Heard Of Sell Your Personal Data to the Cops 🚨 Ep. 162: Hieu

These 8 Companies You've Never Heard Of Sell Your Personal Data to the Cops 🚨 Ep. 162: Hieu

Source: YouTube · Jack Rhysider · published Aug 5, 2025 · 1:33:47

Cybersecurity
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This episode explores how notorious hacker Hieu Minh Ngo's teenage curiosity about the internet evolved into a massive cybercrime operation selling US identities through his access to data brokers 0:11.

Key Takeaways:
• Hieu began hacking at 14-15 in Vietnam, initially stealing dial-up accounts to access expensive, slow internet 0:18
• He progressed to hacking e-commerce websites, stealing credit card data, and selling stolen identities 0:44
• Hieu eventually gained API access to Court Ventures data broker, making $120,000 monthly selling over 3 million US identities 1:04

Hieu's operation led to his arrest and 13-year prison sentence, after which he began working with Vietnamese cybersecurity authorities to help catch cyber criminals.

Sources:

  • 0:06 Hieu's background in Vietnam
  • 0:11 Early hacking motivation and internet access challenges
  • 0:18 Evolution from curious teenager to cybercriminal
  • 0:44 Credit card theft and identity theft operations
  • 1:04 Data broker access and criminal enterprise

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JACK: I want to make sure I pronounce your 
name right, so can you say your name for me? HIEU: My name is Hieu Minh Ngo. JACK: Hieu was born in Vietnam. HIEU: [Music] I’m grown up in a small town in 
Vietnam. It’s called Cam Ranh. I was — started to be a hacker when I was very young, maybe 
around fourteen, fifteen years old. Then, kind out of curiosity, you see? You know, 
wondering about how the internet — working. Back then, the internet was very expensive 
and super slow. That’s one of the reasons that I started to hack and steal a few internet 
dial-up accounts to be able to use it. Without pay anything. That’s kinda the — my first time I 
got into trouble, when I was fifteen years old. JACK: This was around 2004, a time when 56k 
modems were the most popular way to get online. The wa…