Teen Hacker Turns Corporate Cyber-Crime Consultant
How do you punish a hacker for skimming $20 million from unsuspecting people's bank accounts? You send a strong message to other hackers by making an example out of this guy…by giving him a security consultant job for a major telecom company. That'll teach him!
How do you punish a hacker for skimming $20 million from unsuspecting people's bank accounts? You send a strong message to other hackers by making an example out of this guy…by giving him a security consultant job for a major telecom company. That'll teach him!
Walker pleaded guilty last July — when he was 18 — to a raft of charges connected to his work for an international network that the FBI estimated infiltrated 1.3 million computers and skimmed bank accounts or damaged computer systems to the tune of more than $20 million.
