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The hacker who took down a country

33 mins | Jan 9, 2020
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Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. Kit Chellel writing in Bloomberg Businessweek tells a story of a case of corporate espionage which wiped out Liberia's internet for days, led to the extortion of two British banks and landed one hacker with a 10-year prison sentence.

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