The Kids Who Hacked Xbox

[Music] this is David pakur he's 22 years old has shoulder length blonde hair and studies computer science his online names are Xenon and xenoma he's part of the Xbox Community tweaking consoles and creating cheats for games like Halo and Call of Duty right now he has an annoying problem the bumper of his car is broken and the

dealer refuses to ship the parts to Canada so he asks his friend Justin who lives in the US if he can order the new bumper to his house they met each other years ago on the internet Justin lives in Wilmington about an 8 hour drive away David's plan is to drive there get the

bumper maybe grab something to eat together and head back home his dad offers to tag along so they can take turns driving they take the family car about an hour later David and his dad get to the border the US border officer checks their passports he's about to wave them through when he sees a strange

name on his display what's Xenon the officer asks David flinches that's his online name but why on Earth does it pop up here at the passport control two figures in dark uniforms approach the vehicle they pull their weapons and tell him to step out of the car David gets arrested he walked right into a

trap the thing is David may have done more than tweaking consoles and coding cheats the FBI has been after him for years he's part of a hacker gang that will become to known as the Xbox underground they are responsible for an unprecedented series of cyber attacks on some of the biggest Tech firms on the

planet they stole thousands of login credentials heisted the source code of unpublished games and hacked into confidential us mil milary simulations they didn't do it on behalf of some government agency sometimes they didn't even make money with it they were just a bunch of teenagers [Music]