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Set a former thief to catch new thieves: a cybercrime story
By Luu Quy February 18, 2021 | 08:45 pm GMT+7
Ngo Minh Hieu, a convicted hacker who has been hired by Vietnam’s National Cybersecurity Center as a technical expert. Photo by VnExpress/Le Thi Hong.
A Vietnamese hacker who stole the personal information of 200 million Americans has developed a software add-on that alerts users to scam websites.
Earlier this month, Ngo Minh Hieu published a long article on his personal page, sharing information about a cyber-safety software that took him three nights to complete.
Hieu doing such good, useful work is the stuff of Hollywood or Bollywood scripts about redemption of erstwhile criminals and/or convicts.