SERIES
The full stories
Four seasons of attacks, groups, leaks and people who left their mark on the digital world.
SEASON 01
Viruses, breaches and cyber incidents
- 1988The Morris Worm — a student took down a tenth of the internet by accident
- 1999Chernobyl — the virus that killed the motherboard itself
- 2000ILOVEYOU — a love letter that cost the world billions
- 2010Stuxnet — the first digital weapon in history
- 2012Shamoon — when a giant went back to pen and paper
- 2016Mirai — security cameras took down half the internet
- 2017WannaCry — hospitals stopped, and one man halted it by chance
- 2024CrowdStrike — the day we switched ourselves off, with no attacker
SEASON 02
Famous hacking groups and hacktivist movements
- 2008Anonymous — masks without a leader, and protests that moved onto the screen
- 2014Lazarus Group — the Sony attack put a North Korea-linked group in the spotlight
- 2011LulzSec — fifty days of hacking put major names in the spotlight
- 1981Chaos Computer Club (CCC) — a German hacker club made technology flaws a public issue
- 2016Fancy Bear (APT28) — US election breaches brought cyber espionage into focus
- 1984Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) — from hacker culture to privacy and digital rights
- 2015Equation Group — researchers uncovered espionage tools hiding deep inside devices
- 2019APT41 — a group linked to both espionage and the pursuit of profit
SEASON 03
Leaks, platforms and the people behind them
- 2006WikiLeaks — a platform turned secret documents into global headlines
- 2013Edward Snowden — surveillance disclosures changed how we see privacy
- 2010Chelsea Manning — classified documents and videos moved from the military into public view
- 2011LulzSec Leaks — leaked data revealed the aftermath of the group’s intrusions
SEASON 04
Eight famous individual hackers around the world
- 1995Kevin Mitnick — a manhunt ended in the arrest of a name synonymous with social engineering
- 2002Gary McKinnon — alleged US system intrusions sparked a long extradition battle
- 2000Michael Calce — a teenager called Mafiaboy disrupted major websites
- 1994Vladimir Levin — the Citibank case exposed a digital route to bank funds
- 1999Jonathan James — a teenager reached NASA systems before turning eighteen
- 1993Mark Abene — Phiber Optik, a name that stood out in hacking and phone networks
- 2002Adrian Lamo — a major newspaper breach, then a controversial role in a leaks case
- 2010Turki Omar — known as “Marjouj Hazazi” — a story from the Saudi hacker scene