Hack history / 2025 / Hack or exploit
Jake Gallen
Hack or exploit on Apr 11, 2025 · Social Engineering
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$100K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,711
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Jake Gallen, CEO of digital asset trading platform Emblem Vault, was hacked after a suspicious Zoom video call, resulting in the loss of over $100,000 worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum. The attacker posed as a YouTube content creator with over 90,000 subscribers and exploited Zoom’s default remote access settings during the interview to install malicious software named “GOOPDATE” on Gallen’s computer.
Details
- Date
- Apr 11, 2025
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Social Engineering
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Jake Gallen hack, Apr 11, 2025: $100K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htee0344f47f/ (data as of 2026-11-01).