303: Matt Fine – Disgruntled Phillies Fan Cyber Attack
FBI Retired Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Retired agent Matt Fine reviews his investigation of a disgruntled Philadelphia Phillies fan who hacked computers and launched a cyber-attack against the team and the email accounts of reporters at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, leaving messages voicing his complaints about the Phillies management. Matt served in the FBI for nearly 23 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 303 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm a retired agent out of mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through |
| 0:17.4 | my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews before my colleague. |
| 0:22.0 | Today, we get to speak to retired agent Matt Fein, who served in the FBI for nearly 23 |
| 0:29.2 | years. |
| 0:30.2 | He reviews his investigation of a disgruntled Philadelphia Philly's fan who hacked computers |
| 0:36.9 | and launched a cyber attack against the team and email accounts of reporters at the Philadelphia |
| 0:43.0 | Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, leaving messages voicing his complaints about the |
| 0:49.0 | Philly's management. |
| 0:50.7 | Initially, Matt served as a field agent for approximately eight years assigned to the Philadelphia |
| 0:57.3 | Field Office. |
| 0:58.8 | During that time, he conducted white-colored crime investigations, but a bulk of his |
| 1:03.4 | failed career was spent on computer intrusion investigations and managing national cyber |
| 1:10.9 | investigative programs in the field of operational technologies and electronic surveillance. |
| 1:18.0 | Matt served in the cyber division in which he was the program manager of the Elite Quick |
| 1:24.6 | Reaction Team of Cyber Special Agents known as the Cyber Action Team, Arcat, Regional Cyber |
| 1:32.7 | Action Teams, and the BotNet Initiative, which combated botnets and the threat they posed |
| 1:39.2 | to the internet and infrastructure. |
| 1:42.8 | Matt led two successful national takedown operations known as Operation Bot Rost and Operation |
| 1:51.2 | Bot Rost 2. |
| 1:53.1 | Matt also served as the chief of the executive support unit in the operational technology |
| 1:59.5 | division, where he led technical operational coordination and strategic technical industry |
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