Most probably you will find interesting this fascinating Kevin Poulsen's (@kpoulsen) story about Ukrainian hacker Maxim Popov and his relationship with FBI.
One Thursday in January 2001, Maksym Popov, a 20-year-old Ukrainian man, walked nervously through the
doors of the United States embassy in London. While Popov could have
been mistaken for an exchange student applying for a visa, in truth he
was a hacker, part of an Eastern European gang that had been raiding US
companies and carrying out extortion and fraud. A wave of such attacks
was portending a new kind of cold war, between the US and organized
criminals in the former Soviet bloc, and Popov, baby-faced and pudgy,
with glasses and a crew cut, was about to become the conflict’s first
defector......
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