{"id":1011312,"date":"2026-06-01T10:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011312"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:07:39","slug":"google-techie-bet-2-7-million-on-polymarket-with-company-secrets-won-1-2-million-then-fbi-caught-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/01\/google-techie-bet-2-7-million-on-polymarket-with-company-secrets-won-1-2-million-then-fbi-caught-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Google techie bet $2.7 million on Polymarket with company secrets, won $1.2 million, then FBI caught him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Google information security engineer who built a celebrated career exposing digital vulnerabilities for one of the world&#8217;s most valuable companies has been charged with federal fraud and money laundering, accused of exploiting confidential internal search data to place winning bets on a prediction market and earn an alleged $1.2 million before federal investigators traced the money directly back to his name, Wall Street Journal reported .<\/p>\n<p>Google Engineer Michele Spagnuolo Charged With Using Nonpublic Search Data on Polymarket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google information security engineer who built a celebrated career exposing digital vulnerabilities for one of the world&#8217;s most valuable companies has been charged with federal fraud and money laundering, accused of exploiting confidential internal search data to place winning bets on a prediction market and earn an alleged $1.2 million before federal investigators traced the money directly back to his name, Wall Street Journal reported . Google Engineer Michele Spagnuolo Charged With Using Nonpublic Search Data on Polymarket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011313,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011312\/revisions\/1011313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}