http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/a-virginia-hacker-catches-the-attention-of-federal-law-enforcement/2014/09/27/51251eee-1405-11e4-9285-4243a40ddc97_story.html
By Justin Jouvenal
The Washington Post
September 27, 2014
The agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service
showed up on Muneeb Akhter’s Springfield doorstep in mid-July, he said,
soon after they learned that he claimed to have created a hack so powerful
it was like printing virtual money.
The cybersecurity expert and self-described hacker, who started college at
16, had casually told co-workers soon after starting work as a DHS
contractor that he could add money to major retailers’ gift cards without
spending a dime.
Now, as the 22-year-old and the agents sat around his family’s dining room
table, the officials wanted to know how. Akhter thought they might arrest
him as he explained the hack, but instead, he said, they extended an
extraordinary offer: Work secretly as a hacker for the government.
“There is no university we can go to and just recruit people,” a man, who
Akhter said is a DHS agent, is heard saying on an audio recording of the
meeting that Akhter’s family made. “The people we’re looking for might be
the people they have concerns about because you have special skills that
we need.”
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