Case files · new case daily at noon ET

Every breach is a heist. Every heist had a missing control.

True stories of hacks, frauds and insider jobs, told like the heists they were. Each one ends with the single security control that would have stopped it.

1Cases released
30In the vault
0How-to guides
Today's case

The missing control:

A new case drops every day at noon Eastern. Follow on any platform so you don't miss the next one.

How every case works

Setup. Break-in. The gap.

Under a minute each. No jargon, no fear-mongering, no instructions for copycats.

The setup

Who was trusted, what they guarded, and why nobody was worried.

The break-in

What actually happened, in the order it happened, checked against the public record.

The missing control

The one safeguard that would have stopped it, in plain words you can take to work.

The case files

Thirty heists. Thirty missing controls.

Lottery rigs, SIM swaps, fake invoices, deepfaked bosses. Released cases link straight to the video. Locked cases unlock on their drop date.

Free download

The Heist Control Checklist

The most dangerous person in any system is the one trusted to protect it. Twelve plain-English questions that check whether anyone on your team, or a vendor you're about to trust, could quietly do what a lottery's own security director did.

Download the checklist (PDF)
How the cases are made

Checked, not guessed.

Sourced

Every name, number and date is checked against court records, regulatory filings, company disclosures and government reports. Sources are listed with each video.

Fair

Only people convicted, or who pleaded guilty, are named. Charges are reported as charges. Victims are never named.

No playbooks

We show what happened and why it worked, never how to repeat it. The point of every case is the control that stops the next one.

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