Jack states that Mojang is the creator of Minecraft.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 154 Details
“Mojang’s website, the creator of Minecraft”
Episode
04 February 2025 Official episode · Official transcript
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The episode features Conor Freeman describing his progression from Minecraft account abuse and online scams to OG username theft and cryptocurrency SIM-swap heists, followed by his arrest, imprisonment, and later cybersecurity education.
Topics: SIM swapping and fraudulent number porting, Social engineering of carrier support agents, OSINT-based target selection, Doxing and personal-data aggregation, Credential stuffing and breached-password reuse, Account takeover through SMS-based password recovery, Two-factor authentication weaknesses, Cloud-stored passwords and secrets, Cryptocurrency wallet seed phrases and private keys, Cryptocurrency theft and laundering, Swatting and online harassment
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Qualified statements from this episode, not graph facts.
Jack states that Mojang is the creator of Minecraft.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 154 Details
“Mojang’s website, the creator of Minecraft”
Conor Freeman USES Minecraft
Conor says Minecraft was where he got involved and that he played multiplayer servers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“it was really Minecraft where I got into everything”
Conor Freeman USES Roblox
Conor says Minecraft and Roblox were both involved at different points in the story.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“they’re both involved at certain points throughout the story”
Conor Freeman USES Skype
Conor says he communicated with another Minecraft player on Skype.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“we ended up talking on Skype”
Conor Freeman USES griefing
Conor describes griefing Minecraft servers and trolling players.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“Just — yeah, griefing, that’s the term”
Conor Freeman USES social engineering
Conor learned and used social engineering to obtain secret-question answers and take over an administrator’s account.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“he socially-engineered the admin of this server into giving him the two answers to his secret questions”
Conor Freeman USES refund scam
Conor describes participating in refund scams and return scams involving online purchases.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“people used to do refund scams”
Conor Freeman USES Credential stuffing
Conor describes trying lists of usernames and passwords against Hilton accounts to obtain accounts with reward points.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“They’d load up a massive list of usernames and passwords and try them against the Hilton log-in page”
Conor Freeman USES Hack Forums
Conor says Hack Forums was one of the forums through which he discovered hacking-related services and communities.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“Hack Forums was one of the forums that was around a long time”
Conor Freeman USES OGUsers
Conor says he joined OGUsers and used it as a marketplace for acquiring and selling usernames.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“there was a new forum that opened up called OGUsers”
“that was my next venture then, getting into acquiring these usernames”
Conor Freeman USES Bitcoin
Conor says he possessed Bitcoin and used it in connection with buying and selling usernames.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“I had a bit of Bitcoin”
Conor Freeman USES doxing
Conor describes using breached databases to dox account holders and obtain information for account takeover attempts.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“what I was doing was doxing these account holders”
Conor Freeman USES SIM swapping
Conor describes using social engineering and carrier processes to transfer victims’ phone numbers to replacement SIM cards.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“I have a replacement SIM card here. If I give you the ISE ID, can you swap my SIM over to this card?”
Conor Freeman USES T-Mobile
Conor says T-Mobile was the easiest carrier for carrying out SIM swaps.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“T-Mobile by far was the easiest”
Conor Freeman USES AT&T
Conor discusses using an AT&T account exploit to retrieve part of a victim’s Social Security number.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“AT&T, you could put in a mobile number and then you could pull back their SSN or the last four of their SSN”
Conor Freeman USES OSINT
Conor identifies his main role in the group as pre-attack OSINT, finding and profiling people with cryptocurrency.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“my role was really the pre-attack OSINT”
Conor Freeman USES Discord
Conor says the group coordinated SIM swaps and password resets in Discord calls.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“we’d all be in a call together on Discord”
Conor Freeman USES Gmail
Conor describes taking control of victims’ Gmail accounts after SIM swaps and using them to access other accounts.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 154 Details
“The code he’s waiting for is to get into their Gmail”
Conor Freeman USES Google Password Manager
Conor says he accessed passwords saved in Google Password Manager after taking control of a victim’s Gmail account.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“I could log into your e-mail and view all these saved passwords”
Conor Freeman USES Evernote
Conor says the group reset victims’ Evernote accounts and searched their notes for seed phrases.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“we’d reset the Evernote account, look through the notes, see if we could find a pneumonic somewhere or a seed phrase”
Conor Freeman USES Seed phrase
Conor searched victims’ online accounts and notes for seed phrases that could provide access to cryptocurrency wallets.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“see if we could find a pneumonic somewhere or a seed phrase”
Conor Freeman USES Private key
Conor says he would import a discovered private key or seed phrase into a wallet client to gain access to the wallet.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 154 Details
“If I found a Bitcoin private key, I could go into Exodus or a blockchain and import that seed phrase and have access to the wallet”
Conor Freeman USES Exodus
Conor says he used or prepared an Exodus client to import cryptocurrency keys and access wallets.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“I’d have an Exodus client downloaded and ready”
Conor Freeman USES Monero
Jack says some participants converted stolen Bitcoin to Monero to make it harder to trace.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 154 Details
“Some would convert their Bitcoin to Monero to make it harder to trace”
Conor Freeman USES Trezor
Conor says he kept his cryptocurrency on a Trezor hardware wallet and later surrendered it to police.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“I had all my crypto on a Trezor hardware wallet”
Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Jack says he created the episode and identifies himself as the creator of the show.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“This episode was created by me”
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