The Tony Stark Address Hack: Mishaal Khan Fooling Credit Bureaus With OSINT

The Tony Stark Address Hack: Mishaal Khan Fooling Credit Bureaus With OSINT

July 16, 2026 · 1h 0m · Season 9 · Episode 32

About this episode

Mishaal Khan discusses how he used OSINT to uncover a hacker's identity, leading to a DOJ investigation and a documentary.

A hacker stayed anonymous for years. Mishaal Khan, author of Phantom CISO and creator of Operation Privacy, found him in about an hour using OSINT, open source intelligence, meaning information that's already public and free to find. The case grew into a Department of Justice investigation and a documentary that premiered at Tribeca. Inside: the OSINT method nobody teaches, the voice cloning scam that takes ten seconds, and the mansion address he legally made his own, Tony Stark's. Chapters ...

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Host: David Mauro

Guest: Mishaal Khan

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Organizations: Department of Justice

Books & works: Phantom CISO

Places: Tribeca, Tony Stark

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