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Click Happens: Human Cyber News with Ant Davis

Click Happens is a weekly cybersecurity podcast bringing a curated, global cast of guests to break down the week"s cyber news. Each guest, security professionals and everyday people alike, brings their own experience and perspective on the human side of cybersecurity. The show covers the stories that made headlines and the breaches and vulnerabilities that didn"t, explained in plain English. Host Ant Davis has spent over 15 years helping people understand security instead of just complying with

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00:53:49

16-Year-Old Hacks Microsoft + AI Tools Store Your...

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2026/10/07

A 16-year-old found a way into Microsoft's internal Titan analytics service, reported it responsibly and was paid five thousand dollars. Another 16-year-old is suspected of running a ransomware group that Eurojust links to almost a thousand attacks. Coding agents are storing API keys and credentials in plain text, and more than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July. And the app that comes with your car may be passing your data to advertising and

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01:22:30

An AI Broke Into a Government Website + The FBI's...

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2026/09/28

An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government health site, and it took the Prime Minister three months to find out. An extortion group came back for a second run at the FBI after failing the first time, and succeeded. A UK pensioner lost eighty thousand pounds to a deepfake of a man who's never given financial advice in his life. And a new Android trojan tricked an AI chatbot into helping build itself by pretending to be a parental monitoring app.This week on Click Happens: the first

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01:01:26

ChatGPT Scam Factories | 100,000 Police Staff Leaked...

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2026/08/10

It's Episode 100 of The Awareness Angle, and the last episode in its current format.This week: more than 100,000 UK police officers and criminal justice staff have had their details leaked by ExfilSquad, the same gang that hit the Department for Education just one week earlier. OpenAI banned a network of ChatGPT accounts run out of Cambodian scam compounds, where trafficked workers were being forced to run investment fraud. And a fake version of a popular Roblox cheat tool called Xeno Executor is

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01:07:18

$70 Million Bitcoin Heist in 41 Minutes, Government...

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2026/08/03

This week, a $70 million Bitcoin heist that took just 41 minutes, a government helpdesk breach that leaked 600,000 school staff records, and an AI security story where Anthropic's Claude broke into three real companies during a test that went wrong.This week on The Awareness Angle, Ant and Luke open Breach Watch with the Department for Education hack, then dig into the Anthropic story, models that broke out of a sealed testing environment and hacked three organisations because of a mix up over

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01:11:59

OpenAI's AI Goes Rogue and Hacks Hugging Face,...

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2026/07/27

Two governments found out their data was gone this week. One because a hacker deleted everything and left a ransom note, the other because they finally noticed someone had been sitting inside their systems for ten months. And somewhere between the two, an AI broke out of a safety test and hacked one of the biggest AI companies on the planet.A hacker wiped Romania's entire national land registry after a ransom went unpaid, and now you cannot legally buy or sell a house there because the records that

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01:05:01

Mac Malware Is Out of Control | 23andMe's $18M DNA...

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2026/07/20

This week the internet came for your fridge, your laptop and your DNA, and it wasn't subtle about any of it.Hackers hit Coca-Cola's dairy brand fairlife with ransomware and shut down US milk production. Mac users are under fire from two new malware strains — one that holds your computer hostage until you type your password in, and another disguising itself as Apple's own crash reporter. And 23andMe is paying $18 million over the breach that exposed millions of people's genetic data. That's the one

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01:15:15

7 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked, Sainsbury's...

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2026/07/13

Episode 96 of The Awareness AngleThis week an insurance company leaked driver's license numbers for nearly 7 million people because one employee clicked a phishing email. Sainsbury's facial recognition system was 99.98% accurate and 100% wrong about the shopper it publicly kicked out. A 15 year old took down a national anime streaming service with malware ChatGPT helped him write. A Scattered Spider suspect hopped three countries on a VPN and still got caught by a number hidden in every

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01:03:37

iPhone 18 Leaked, Aflac Hacked (Again) and a Bank...

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2026/07/06

iPhone 18 Pro design files leaked, Aflac gets hit for the third time in a few years, and a bank robber in London gets away with £117,000 just by wearing the right uniform. This week's episode has a bit of everything.Hackers stole 630GB of unreleased iPhone 18 Pro design files from Apple's manufacturing partner Tata Electronics, proving that even Apple's secrets aren't safe once you outsource the manufacturing. Medtronic tells millions of customers their health data and Social

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01:14:52

GTA 6 Scams, Scattered Spider & The AI Plugin That...

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2026/06/29

GTA 6 scams launched within hours of pre-orders going live. Scattered Spider's teenage hackers pleaded guilty for the TfL attack, and one of them was hacking US hospitals while on bail. And a fake AI plugin passed every security scanner because the malware only switched on after the check was done.This week on The Awareness Angle: why attackers are borrowing your trust instead of breaking it, what the TfL case tells us about where the real hacking talent is, and why a clean security scan no

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01:02:58

The FBI Built a Fake Town, $3.5 Billion Lost to...

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2026/06/22

This week the threats are getting bigger and the defences are getting stranger. A criminal gang hit a school system that holds records for eleven million kids, Americans lost a record three and a half billion dollars to imposter scams, and the FBI built an entire fake town just to train agents to fight cybercrime. Plus earbuds that could be listening in, malware hiding in Steam wallpapers, a nasty new Android banking trojan, your cheap streaming box secretly working for criminals, and Google quietly

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00:50:42

University of Nottingham Data Breach, Whitehall Spy...

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2026/06/15

ShinyHunters breached the University of Nottingham using a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, leaking passport numbers, National Insurance numbers, disability data and financial records for 455,000 students. If you studied at Nottingham, check haveibeenpwned.com now.A hidden camera was found in a ceiling tile at 2 Marsham Street, London, the Home Office building that approved China's controversial new mega-embassy. Nobody knows who put it there or how long it was recording.Someone filed fake

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00:46:40

NHS Blood Tests Leaked Two Years Later, Dashlane 2FA...

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2026/06/08

NHS patients are only now being notified about a breach that happened two years ago. Hackers brute-forced Dashlane's two-factor authentication. The FBI has already spotted over 30 fake FIFA websites and yes, fifa.beer is one of them.This week Ant and Luke cover why the two-year gap between the Synnovis ransomware attack and this week's notification letters is not unusual, and what it means for the people affected. Plus why the Dashlane breach is giving everyone LastPass flashbacks, and why your

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00:46:50

They Walked Into the Law Firm, 23andMe Covered It Up...

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2026/06/01

Solo episode this week. A fake UK visa website left 100,000 passports in an open folder online. iPhone thieves in London are now threatening victims' families to get them to remove Activation Lock. California has sued the company formerly known as 23andMe, alleging they paid the hacker in secret while telling customers everything was fine. A ChatGPT vulnerability lets attackers hide phishing links inside AI responses. A criminal group called Silent Ransom Group has been physically walking into US

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00:51:15

CISA Left Its Passwords on GitHub, Mac's Worst...

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2026/05/25

CISA left admin passwords and AWS keys on a public GitHub repo called "Private-CISA" for six months. A new macOS stealer called Reaper fakes Apple security updates to steal everything on your machine. And the 2026 Verizon DBIR lands with 22,000 breaches across 145 countries.Chapters00:00 Intro01:30 Breach Watch: 7-Eleven / ShinyHunters04:20 Breach Watch: Portugal postal service leak07:12 CISA left passwords on public GitHub12:32 Iran-linked attacks on US fuel monitors17:54 Reaper macOS stealer22:43

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00:53:09

Fired on a Teams Call, Deleted 96 Databases While...

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2026/05/18

This week the Canvas story is back. Instructure has paid ShinyHunters and says the stolen student data has been destroyed, but nobody in the security industry believes them. A telehealth platform breach exposed over 700,000 patients from a company most of them have never heard of.Twin brothers got fired on a Teams call, forgot it was still recording, and deleted 96 government databases while talking through their plan out loud. Kids are beating age verification with a drawn-on mustache. A fake

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01:02:40

Dead Airline Still Taking Bookings, Chrome's Secret...

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2026/05/11

Spirit Airlines shut down on May 2nd but nobody turned anything off. A security researcher discovered the entire booking system is still running, still taking personal details, and still attempting payment transactions for flights that will never exist. Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4GB AI model onto your computer without consent, and if you delete it, it comes back. And a $5,000 robot lawn mower can be hijacked by anyone on the internet, including overriding the emergency stop

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01:07:24

ADT Breached by a Phone Call, AI Wipes a Startup in 9...

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2026/05/05

This week on The Awareness Angle, we hit 1.2 million views on a single video across TikTok and Instagram, which is pretty wild for an independent podcast. Thank you to everyone who watched and shared.ADT gets breached for the third time in under a year and it all started with a phone call. An AI coding agent wipes a startup's entire database and all its backups in nine seconds, then writes its own incident report admitting it broke every safety rule it had. The supply chain attack that started with

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00:59:49

How Roblox Cheats Led to a Corporate Breach, Warship...

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2026/04/27

Roblox cheats at work lead to a full corporate breach. Half a million people's health data listed for sale on Alibaba by the researchers trusted to protect it. A $5 Bluetooth tracker in a postcard tracks a NATO warship for 24 hours. The UK government officially says passkeys should replace passwords.In this episode we break down the Vercel breach, the UK Biobank scandal, a Bluetooth tracker that exposed a $585 million warship, the NCSC's official passkey guidance ahead of World Password Day, plus

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00:52:38

Hungarian Passwords, Rockstar Hacked & Booking.com Scams

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2026/04/20

Nearly 800 Hungarian government passwords found in breach databases — including one from a colonel in charge of information security who used "FrankLampard". We break down how it happened, why it keeps happening, and what it means for anyone responsible for security culture at work.Also this week: Rockstar Games hacked for the second time in three years through a third-party supplier. Basic-Fit gym breach exposes bank details of around one million members across Europe. Booking.com customers scammed

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00:47:57

Missile Alert Phishing, Meeting Recordings Exposed...

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2026/04/13

This week: attackers are sending fake missile alert emails exploiting real Iran-US-Israel tensions to steal Microsoft credentials via QR code. We also cover a massive leak of sensitive LAPD police documents, an AI model that autonomously finds and exploits thousands of zero-days, and a Windows exploit that went public after a researcher fell out with Microsoft.This week on The Awareness Angle:Hackers steal 7.7TB of sensitive LAPD police documents including officer files, internal affairs

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