hieupc.com DEVELOPED_BY Hieu Minh Ngo
Hieu says he built his first website, hieupc.com.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“I built my first website, hieupc.com”
Episode
05 August 2025 Official episode · Official transcript
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Hieu Minh Ngo describes hacking e-commerce sites, obtaining and reselling payment-card and U.S. identity data through data brokers, his prosecution under the CFAA, and his later work assisting Vietnamese cybercrime investigations.
Topics: SQL injection against e-commerce and data-broker web applications, Google dorking and automated vulnerability scanning, Cross-site scripting and file-upload vulnerabilities, Phishing and malware-based compromise of private investigators, Data-broker aggregation and identity-data resale, API-based identity-data access, Payment-card theft and storage failures, Chip dumping and online-payment laundering, Identity theft and tax-refund fraud, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act prosecution, Privacy, surveillance, and third-party data doctrine, Credential theft and account impersonation
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hieupc.com DEVELOPED_BY Hieu Minh Ngo
Hieu says he built his first website, hieupc.com.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“I built my first website, hieupc.com”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES Google dorking
Hieu searched Google using Google dorks to find vulnerable websites.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“I searched on Google with those keywords, some of the Google dork”
Hieu Minh Ngo EXPLOITS SQL injection vulnerability
Hieu exploited SQL injection vulnerabilities in e-commerce sites and data brokers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“that website, it got a SQL injection vulnerability”
“First; SQL injection”
Hieu Minh Ngo EXPLOITS file upload vulnerabilities
Hieu says he used file upload vulnerabilities against LocatePLUS and MicroBilt.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“The second one, the file upload vulnerabilities”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES cross-site scripting
Hieu says he used cross-site scripting when attacking the data brokers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“and the third one, cross-site scripting”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES OSINT
Hieu used OSINT to compile a list of U.S. data brokers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“doing lots of OSINT to get me a list of all the data brokers in the US”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES chip dumping
The episode describes Hieu transferring stolen poker chips between accounts to launder money; Jack identifies this as chip dumping.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 162 Details
“This technique is called chip dumping”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES phishing
Hieu used phishing emails to compromise private investigators' computers and impersonate them.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“I used that to do phishing. I was phishing them to a malware”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES Malware
Hieu used malware delivered through phishing to gain access to a private investigator's computer.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“I was phishing them to a malware so I can — got into the computer”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES Liberty Reserve
Hieu used Liberty Reserve to receive payments for identity searches and launder proceeds.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“Back then, I didn’t use Bitcoin. We used Liberty Reserve”
Hieu Minh Ngo USES identity theft
Hieu sold U.S. identities and acknowledged that his service enabled identity theft-related activity.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 162 Details
“Stealing identities and selling that is far less of a crime”
“I kinda like I hurt and harmed so many people’s lives”
Hieu Minh Ngo DEVELOPED_BY Hieu Minh Ngo
Hieu says he built a website that sold identity lookups; the episode later identifies its successive domains as ussearching.info, superget.info, and findget.me. This self-link is not appropriate; the supported links are represented below as website-to-person claims.
Uncertain Direction flagged Confidence 10% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“Then I built a website and then I took that website”
ussearching.info DEVELOPED_BY Hieu Minh Ngo
The episode identifies ussearching.info as the first domain of the website Hieu built to sell identity searches.
Derived Confidence 90% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“At first that website’s called ussearching.info”
superget.info DEVELOPED_BY Hieu Minh Ngo
Hieu says the identity-search website was later operated under the superget.info domain.
Derived Confidence 90% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“then eventually superget.info and findget.me”
findget.me DEVELOPED_BY Hieu Minh Ngo
Hieu says the identity-search website was later operated under the findget.me domain.
Derived Confidence 90% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“then eventually superget.info and findget.me”
ussearching.info USES API
The website allowed users to search Court Ventures data through an API.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 162 Details
“users could search Court Venture database through the API”
ussearching.info USES Court Ventures
The website used the Court Ventures database as its identity-search data source.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 162 Details
“users could search Court Venture database through the API”
Hieu Minh Ngo MEMBER_OF National Cyber Security Center
After prison, Hieu says he worked for Vietnam’s National Cyber Security Center for four years.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“I’ve been working there for four years”
Court Ventures ASSOCIATED_WITH Experian
Hieu says Court Ventures was acquired by Experian; Jack places the acquisition in December 2011.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hieu Minh Ngo EP 162 Details
“Eventually Court Venture, right, they got acquired by the Experian”
“In December 2011, Experian bought Court Ventures”
Equifax breach COMPROMISES Equifax
Jack refers to Equifax as an example of a data broker that was breached.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 162 Details
“The biggest one is when Equifax got breached”
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