20 Feb Cybercrime Magazine Releases Its First YouTube Short, More On The Way
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 20, 2026
The award-winning Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel released its first Short last month and the video has more than 720,000 Views.
In less than two minutes, our host Taylor Fox told the story:
In the 1980s, a woman named Leslie Lynn Doucette and her network of teen hackers stole over $1.6 million without robbing a single bank. Online, she went by the alias ‘Kyrie’ and was later given a nickname that stuck forever: The Queen of The Hackers. Today, Doucette’s whereabouts are unknown, but the internet we know now? It was shaped, in part, by the Queen of the Hackers. [ more… ]
Our trial is complete and our audience has spoken. You want Shorts and we’ll be producing a lot more of them. Stay tuned!
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