Sod agency life, I should have been a hacker

In this guest post Douglas Nicol takes us on a journey through the surprisingly easy-to-find hacker black market.

Today I went live shopping for other people’s personal information. And it made me realise I really am in the wrong business; I should have been a hacker.

A young Brit called Adam Tyler, who looked like a homeless 16-year-old, gave an utterly compelling presentation at SXSW.

It’s his job to understand the threat of hackers and educate brands accordingly. Basically it was a workshop for upskilling us in the world of malware, DDoS and other nasty things. We went live shopping for personal data and it was so easy to pick up other peoples’ credit card data and whole world of other valuable data, too.