Who Are You?: Joseph Harris: From stealing game accounts to a white hat hacker

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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What do people normally do when they were 12 years old? Learning, playing, and maybe surviving?Joseph Harris, a former black hat hacker and now a white hat hacker, and bug bounty hunter, at age of 12 started stealing other people's game accounts, using social engineering to trick the email providers or game companies to hand him the data that he needs to hack and steal other people's account!In this episode, Joseph told the stories of how he went from stealing simple gaming accounts, into sim-swapping, and stealing millions in crypto altcoins, which ultimately resulted in him being in jail.He also recounts all the techniques that he used to hack into people's accounts, exploiting bugs on service providers' websites like Verizon, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and more. Make sure you follow Joseph onYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdcuF5Zx6BiYmwnS-CiRAngTwitter: @AkaD0c (https://twitter.com/akad0c)Listen to this episode, and tweet at me @jaltucher and Jay @jay_yow07 if you like this series, and if you or you know someone with interesting stories!If you like this series, please leave a review, likes, and subscribes on any podcast player of your choosing!Follow Brian's journey on Instagram and Bandcamp:IG: @brianlawloredSpotify: Brian LawlorBandcamp: BrianLawlor.bandcamp.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usiTyS5bmtwVisit Notepd.com to read more idea lists, or sign up and create your own idea list!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	I told Jay the producer of this podcast.
0:05.6	I wanted to focus more on interesting stories that excite me.
0:10.5	I wanted something that was a little bit seamiar where it's hard to find these stories.
0:16.7	Like I'm always curious about people who hack other people's computers into their email
0:21.6	accounts, into their Instagrams, into their phone, a former developer hacker myself, but
0:27.2	nowhere near at this level. Jay, how did you find this guy?
0:31.5	Through a friend, he recommended me Joseph Harris.
0:35.1	The stories is crazy. Like who would have hacked someone else's account at 12 years old?
0:41.1	And he teaches us exactly how he did everything.
0:44.5	So I hope I actually am a little nervous. I hope people don't use this episode for nefarious
0:49.5	purposes, but it is interesting and it also is helpful to protect yourself.
0:53.6	And I've had other like cyber security people I'm before, but nothing like this.
0:58.0	This is like the how to ride. This is the White Hat Bible.
1:01.7	Thank you Jay for finding this guest.
1:12.2	So Joseph Harris, thanks for coming on the podcast.
1:14.6	No problem.
1:15.6	I heard some of your stories, not all of them, I'm sure you have many to tell, but you started
1:19.3	basically getting into, let's call it respectfully the cybersecurity space when you were 12
1:24.4	years old.
1:25.4	Yes. Before I got into finding bugs and actual hacking settings, I was what we call a social
1:31.2	engineer breaking into emails.
1:33.5	But before you were doing all this, like when you were like 11 or 10?
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