Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The BBC's cyber correspondent was offered money if he helped criminals hack his employer's IT systems. They said they would steal data or install malicious software and hold his employer to ransom. Joe Tidy played along with them for a couple of days before things turned ugly. Also: President Trump posts then deletes a video promoting fake news about something called med-beds which conspiracists believe have magic powers to restore missing limbs and reverse ageing. The Danish government temporarily bans civilians from flying drones, as it prepares to host an EU summit this week - this follows drone incursions in European airspace, prompting suspicions that Russia is deliberately testing Nato defences. And trials are carried out in Britain to test whether tomatoes can be genetically edited to boost people's vitamin D levels.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published at 16 hours GMT on Monday the 29th of September. |
| 0:36.6 | Hackers have tried to recruit our cyber correspondent, |
| 0:39.8 | offering him a share of the ransom in return for access to the BBC computer systems. |
| 0:44.0 | We'll have the story. |
| 0:45.4 | As we record this podcast, President Trump is due to meet the Israeli Prime Minister |
| 0:49.6 | to discuss a new US plan to end the war in Gaza. |
| 0:53.8 | And can Europe stop Russia's drones? |
| 0:59.0 | Also in the podcast? |
| 1:00.6 | This variation, which gives a stripy colour, |
| 1:03.9 | it looks a bit like a sunrise or a sunset, |
| 1:06.5 | that relates to the vitamin D content, |
| 1:08.9 | because it's called the sunshine vitamin. |
| 1:10.8 | Could genetically modified tomatoes boost our health? relates to the vitamin D content, because it's called the Sunshine Vitamin. |
| 1:14.7 | Could genetically modified tomatoes boost our health? |
| 1:23.4 | Now, if you want to hack into an organisation's computer network, is it a good idea to target their cyber specialist? Well, our cyber correspondent Joe Tidy has recently been contacted by |
| 1:29.9 | criminals hoping to get into the BBC system. They promised him a large cut of any ransom if he gave |
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