Crime Hacker

Pete thought his life was made. A college student with an uncanny ability to hack into almost any system, he and his group of select friends begin to stretch their reach. It started with hacking the school’s database to change grades for some of the football players and then grew to anything they desired or coveted. Soon, others started coming to them with requests. Unable to handle the mounting pressure, the group moves off campus and away from prying eyes.

In 2012, 21-year-old Dutch hacker David Schrooten was living at his parents’ house in the Netherlands and spending most of his time online. When he wasn’t squabbling with fellow hackers, he was making plans to visit his Romanian girlfriend. His life turned upside-down when Interpol agents arrested him at an airport in Romania on international hacking charges involving $63 million in damages. Soon Schrooten found himself extradited to the United States, a country where he had never been before.

You could say it started with vanity. We believed we were special. But the truth is we were simply vulnerable. One of them is lying. One of them is guilty. No one is safe. Months after landing their dream job, five brilliant young minds are sent on a remote retreat. But when one of them disappears, they're forced to question why they were brought here in the first place - and how far they'd go to get what they want. And for the first time in their lives, they realise too much knowledge can be deadly.

Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now he's 14 and studying for his World Domination degree, taking classes like embezzlement, misinformation, forgery, and infiltration at the institute founded by criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon. Although Cadel may be advanced beyond his years, at heart he's a lonely kid.

Bount Reiniger, der in Fachkreisen als bester Privatermittler von New York gilt, ist auf der Suche nach Ted Hughes, einem dreisten Hacker, der gerade einen großen Konzern in erhebliche Schwierigkeiten gebracht hat. Ted Hughes hat Produktdaten für Raketenteile gehackt. Reiniger muss ihn finden und die wertvollen Daten sicherstellen. Doch als er den jungen Hacker ausfindig macht, kann er nur noch den Tod des Mannes feststellen - kaltblütig ermordet durch einen Kopfschuss. Reiniger erkennt sofort, dass hier ein professioneller Auftragskiller am Werk war.