Most Wanted: Teen Hacker (2025)

Episode Overview

In the opening episode, we meet Julius Kivimäki, a Finnish teen who became immersed in cybercrime by the age of 14. The story explores his early connections with a gang of hacker criminals, highlighting his involvement in large-scale data breaches and the disturbing practice of "swatting" to intimidate victims. The episode also covers one of his most notorious exploits: a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox Live, which caused millions of gamers to be unable to access their games on Christmas Day in 2014.