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On the record as a cybercrime expert.

National and regional outlets call when they need cybercrime and digital investigations explained in plain language, on camera, on deadline. Verified coverage below, with ready-to-use bios at the bottom.

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In the news.

Moneywise · June 2026

AI leaders keep warning their own tech could wreak havoc on jobs — and workers are buying it

Quoted on AI fear and 'doom trolling': “Fear sells AI because fear is the only frame that makes a chatbot feel as important as its creators want it to feel.”

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PRWeb · June 2026

The Product You Bought Last Week May Have Been Stolen the Week Before

Southern Recon's announcement of its organized-retail-crime and counterfeit supply-chain intelligence work, with commentary from founder Matt Aubin.

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Fox 35 Orlando · November 2024

Florida girl, 13, one of hundreds nationwide to receive racist mass-text

As Southern Recon Agency's cyber-intelligence specialist, breaks down how the perpetrators likely sourced victims' data and the federal penalties they face.

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10 Tampa Bay (WTSP)

Ransomware, data breach insurance costing Florida school districts hundreds of thousands of dollars

On why cybercriminals target school districts, and what the breaches actually cost.

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10 Tampa Bay (WTSP)

FBI offers $15K reward for Florida man wanted on Jan. 6 riot charges

On how fugitives slip off the grid, and how investigators find them anyway.

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The Daily Beast · October 2017

Why You Should Always Assume You're Being Secretly Recorded

On the explosion of hidden-camera recordings, fielding roughly a hundred privacy-invasion inquiries a week.

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ABC Action News (WFTS Tampa Bay) · October 2017

Private investigator receiving 'hundreds' of cases about secret recording devices

On the wave of hidden-camera and secret-recording cases hitting Tampa Bay.

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PRWeb · May 2016

#1 Private Investigator Award for Tampa & Orlando in 2015

Named #1 private investigator for Tampa and Orlando on verified client reviews.

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Also on the record with Spectrum Bay News 9, and featured as the on-camera investigator in the MAC Pictures / Netflix pilot “Trollhunters,” tracking down the attacker who resurfaced a revenge-porn victim's images years after the fact.

//For journalists & organizers

Ready-to-use bios.

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Matt Aubin is a nationally recognized cyber investigator, licensed Florida private investigator (A-1400197), and the founder of Southern Recon Agency and E3 Legacy Intel.

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Matt Aubin is a nationally recognized cyber investigator, licensed Florida PI (A-1400197), CDFE, and FBCI. He founded Southern Recon Agency and its cyber division E3 Legacy Intel, builds the AI his firms run on live cases, and serves on the board of the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators.

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Matt Aubin is a nationally recognized cyber investigator with seventeen years in the field. A licensed Florida private investigator (A-1400197), Certified Digital Forensics Examiner, and one of fewer than fifty Florida Board Certified Investigators, he founded Southern Recon Agency in 2010 and built E3 Legacy Intel, its cyber division, for wire fraud, cryptocurrency tracing, and online-actor attribution. He builds the AI his firms run on live casework, and consults, trains, and keynotes on AI in investigations for investigators, legal teams, law enforcement, and corporate audiences. He serves on the FALI board, with casework alongside the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Marshals.

Headshots, a speaker one-sheet, and interview availability on request.

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