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Bob is currently the host of AARP’s The Perfect Scam podcast. Listeners ride along weekly as scam victims and professional con artists tell their stories. A 2023 Webby award winner
Debugger is a podcast about technology and democracy, produced with help from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
Breach is a deep-dive audio documentary that investigates history’s biggest hackers. Bob is co-host with Alia Tavakolian of Spoke Media. Season 1 uncovers the role of Russia in the massive Yahoo hack; Season 2 examines the comedy of errors that led to the Equifax breach.  Sponsored by Carbonite. A Shorty Award finalist.
No Place to Hide is a 6-episode miniseries examining the state of privacy in America, from abusive digital police tactics to abusive romantic partners who hunt down victims through cyberspace.  Bob co-hosts with Spoke Media’s Alia Tavakolian. Part fiction, part non-fiction. Sponsored by Intel.
“So, Bob?” is a weekly investigation of the unintended consequences of technology.


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Bob Sullivan's podcast projects

You might have missed the biggest hack ever … so let’s un-bury the lead. Here’s the real story behind the Yahoo hack

April 2, 2018 Bob Sullivan 5

Breach is a new podcast I am hosting with producer Alia Tavakolian of Spoke Media. It’s an investigation into the Yahoo hack, which was the biggest hack ever.   You can listen to episode 1 by clicking on the play button here, or by going to Stitcher or iTunes. There’s a [Keep reading]

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Podcast: ‘Breach,’ an investigation of history’s biggest hack — listen now

March 26, 2018 Bob Sullivan 0

  You probably had a Yahoo account. And you probably know that account was hacked. After all, the firm admitted about a year ago that 1 billion accounts had been compromised. Check that…it was actually 3 billion. Every Yahoo account created since, essentially, the dawn of the Internet.  What you [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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