Where does this story start?

So I'm not quite sure.

So, you know, I didn't even realize it was that long ago at first

until after the FBI had visited.

And I told them I would put together a detailed timeline for them.

This is Dutch Van Handel.

Up until last year, he lived a pretty ordinary life.

He's a software engineering manager, married with two kids, and lives in the suburbs

of Los Angeles.

But last year, something happened that turned his ordinary life upside down.

It started when Dutch downloaded a seemingly innocuous program onto his personal computer.

It was an AI software called Vision LLM, and it could generate images.

He wanted something his sons could play with.

Like generate pictures of Easter buddies and Roblox people and stuff like that.

He didn't know it at the time, but the program had a malicious code in it,

a code that gave a hacker access to Dutch's computer.

And over a period of months, that hacker stole all of Dutch's personal information,

like his bank accounts and passwords.

They're getting into things they shouldn't have because they've got my social security number,

they've got my birthday, they've got my email address, you can just make a phone call

and pretend to be me because you have this information.

It was a nightmare.

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