The Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon—and Worst Nightmare
Kevin Poulsen | WIRED
“One Thursday in January 2001, Maksym Igor Popov, a 20-year-old Ukrainian man, walked nervously through the doors of the United States embassy in London. While Popov could have been mistaken for an exchange student applying for a visa, in truth he was a hacker, part of an Eastern European gang that had been raiding U.S. companies and carrying out extortion and fraud. A wave of such attacks was portending a new kind of cold war, between the U.S. and organized criminals in the former Soviet bloc, and …read more
Source: The Atlantic
