The people behind the keyboard.
Profiles and interviews with the hackers, ex-hackers, and convicted operators whose stories explain the cyber world the rest of the catalogue documents. Some made the news. Some made the millions. Some did the time. Some came back with something to say.
Albert Gonzalez
"soupnazi / segvec / cumbajohnny"US Secret Service informant who ran a parallel hacking crew responsible for the largest payment-card breaches in US history; sentenced to 20 years in 2010.
Avi Eisenberg
DeFi trader who manipulated Mango Markets oracle prices to borrow $114M, then argued in court the operation was a trading strategy, not a hack.
Hector Monsegur
"Sabu"LulzSec leader who ran the crew for nine months after his 2011 arrest as an FBI informant while co-conspirators thought he was still in charge.
Kevin Mitnick
"Condor"America's most-wanted hacker of the 1990s, who served five years in federal prison and built a security-consulting career on the credibility his offences gave him.
Marcus Hutchins
"MalwareTech"UK security researcher who accidentally stopped WannaCry by registering its kill-switch domain, then was arrested by the FBI for writing banking malware as a teenager.
Paige Thompson
"erratic"Former AWS engineer who exfiltrated the Capital One credit-card application database, posted about it on Slack, was arrested within 48 hours, and served zero prison time.