Before he even graduated high school, Hieu Minh Ngo had stolen 100,000 credit cards. But that was just the beginning of his hacking career. When he stumbled into the terrifying (and perfectly legal) world of data brokers, he built a pipeline for identity theft on a massive scale.

But why are these companies even allowed to exist? And who are they selling all our personal data to, anyway? What Hieu uncovered might change how your look at the world.

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Would you like to hear how an attacker can steal BILLIONS of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from MPC digital custodian vaults and wallets by exploiting our new 0-day attacks? At the core of modern Multi-Party Computation (MPC) wallets and digital asset custody solutions of major blockchains is a cryptographic protocol named Threshold Signature Scheme (TSS). Today, many institutions, including banks, exchanges, and wallets, rely on TSS to enable a group of parties to authorize transactions by generating signatures without having to reveal their individual secret keys. Consequently, the security of TSS is of utmost importance to many digital asset financial ecosystems.... By: Duy Hieu Nguyen , Anh Khoa Nguyen, Huu Giap Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen , Anh Quynh Nguyen