Notorious Vietnamese hacker turns government cyber agent

By Tran Thi Minh Ha

Cybersecurity
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
1:30 PM MYT

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Vietnamese hacker Ngo Minh Hieu, who made a fortune stealing the personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans, has been recruited by his own authoritarian government to hunt, he says, the kind of cyber criminal he once used to be. — AFP

HO CHI MINH CITY: At the height of his career, Vietnamese hacker Ngo Minh Hieu made a fortune stealing the personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans.

Now he has been recruited by his own authoritarian government to hunt, he says, the kind of cyber criminal he once used to be.

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