THE KIDS WHO HACKED THE CIA: How Teenagers Broke Into the Accounts of America’s Most Powerful Intelligence Officials and Exposed a Stunning Security Failure - Couverture souple

Esther, Muel

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ISBN 13 : 9798160200484

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

They were teenagers. Their targets were some of the most powerful intelligence officials in America. And the accounts they breached were never supposed to be within reach.
THE KIDS WHO HACKED THE CIA tells the astonishing true story of young hackers who penetrated the personal accounts of senior U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement figures, exposing private information and revealing how surprisingly vulnerable even the people responsible for protecting national security could be.
What began behind ordinary computer screens quickly escalated into something far more serious.
As the hackers pushed deeper, sensitive information surfaced, government officials became targets, investigators scrambled to identify who was responsible, and a group of young people found themselves at the center of an international cybercrime investigation.
How could teenagers reach people at the highest levels of American intelligence?
What weaknesses did they exploit?
And what happens when the greatest security vulnerability is not an advanced computer system—but the person sitting behind it?
Blending cybercrime, hacking, intelligence, investigation, digital security, and true-crime storytelling, this gripping account explores the people behind the attacks, the methods that opened supposedly protected doors, the authorities determined to stop them, and the uncomfortable lessons the case revealed about online security.
THE KIDS WHO HACKED THE CIA is a fast-moving story of curiosity, recklessness, digital deception, government secrets, and the security failure that proved no one is completely untouchable online.
Perfect for readers interested in true crime, cybersecurity, hackers, intelligence agencies, digital investigations, espionage, and real-world cyberattacks.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798160200484
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg