Hi, I'm Daniel.

My name is Daniel Christensen, I'm 24 years old, originally from Trondheim and now based in Oslo. Online I'm known as BobTheShoplifter, where I share security tricks and expose scams for 130,000+ followers on TikTok. By day I work as an ethical hacker: I break into things legally, so the people who own them can close the holes before anyone else does. On the side I give talks and turn up in the media when a new scam rolls across the country.

There are two things I try to avoid when I speak: scaring people, and talking down to them. That turns out to be quite enough to do.

Most of my time goes to security: I test systems, expose scams, and explain what people can actually do about it. One of the better-known moments was when I hacked Telenor and ended up with a job offer instead of trouble, which became the video series Hacked med Daniel. In August 2026 I sat down with Røst to answer the questions the internet has for a real hacker.

I also spend a lot of time calling out bad actors: subscription traps like Utstyrshoppen and Stayclassy, travel scams, and companies that rip off their customers. When something big happens in Norwegian security, I'm sometimes the one the media calls.

I also give engaging and informative talks on security and ethical hacking for schools, companies and conferences. The content is tailored to the room, a ninth-grade class gets different examples than the leadership team at a construction firm.

No slides without a reason. No jargon I don't explain. If the audience can't retell the main point to a colleague the next day, I've done a bad job.

When I'm not working, my time goes to side projects, coding, and figuring out how things really work, preferably things that weren't meant to be figured out. This website is one of those projects.