Ten years after Elon Musk’s Twitter account was giving out free Teslas and the PlayStation Community was shut down, the then-teenage hacker behind all of it is lastly having his story instructed. The trailer for the brand new Max docuseries, Most Needed Teen Hacker, previews how Finnish hacker Julius Kivimäki’s cyber exploits shall be laid out with Mr. Robotic-esque theatrics.
It solely takes a 55-second teaser to know how a lot of a movie-level villain Kivimäki was in actual life. Past the PSN and Musk hacks, he “triggered a U.S. Air Drive alert by forcing a passenger jet to make an emergency touchdown,” based on the trailer. Seconds after that revelation, an FBI agent attests that Kivimäki revealed he had regulation enforcement despatched to the households of FBI brokers by making pretend emergency cellphone calls, an act generally known as “swatting,” as a result of “he thought it was enjoyable, and he loved hurting or seeing individuals undergo.” The teaser even options an unidentified man, presumably a sufferer of Kivimäki’s hacks, who vows to kill him the second the 2 are in the identical location.
The documentary won’t solely have victims of his hacks, fellow hackers, SWAT workforce members, and FBI brokers, but additionally the incarcerated Kivimäki himself. The primary of 4 episodes shall be launched in September, however brushing up on the information of Kivimäki’s hacking spree offers you a greater understanding of the prison on the heart of the doc greater than any teaser may. In 2024, Kivimäki was sentenced to 6 years and three months in jail for hacking Finnish personal psychotherapy service supplier Vastaamo in 2020 and blackmailing 1000’s of sufferers with the specter of revealing their deepest, darkest secrets and techniques. He additionally dedicated a mind-boggling 50,700 cyber break-ins from 2012 to 2013, when he was 15 and 16 years outdated, respectively.
Kivimäki seems devoid of all emotion or sense of accountability within the teaser, calling the fees towards him “bullshit.” We’ll delve deeper into the impassive metal entice that’s his thoughts later this fall once we see how movie-quality villainry can have real-world penalties.
