Aug. 23, 2025

Season 1 - Episode 1 - First Blood

Season 1 - Episode 1 - First Blood

It's 1973 and in a New York bank, something wild is going down. A chief bank teller is probably elbow-deep in ledgers all day, while secretly making plans to pull off what is widely believed to be the first digital crime of its type pulled-off by just one man in a tie, who typed his way to over 3M.

Welcome to Hacker Chronicles, the podcast that uncovers the hidden history of cybercrime, from the earliest digital exploits to the most sophisticated hacks of today, with a twist that puts you in the role of a Cyber Sleuth.

Today, we’re time warping back to 1973, where disco ruled, computers were the size of refrigerators, and a bank teller in New York allegedly pulled off a $1.5 million heist using thebanks computer system.

At the end if this episode you’ll have the opportunity to vote TRUE or FALSE on five challenging multiple-choice questions designed to test your concentration and cognitive capacity, just by heading over to HackerChronicles.com.