Mafiaboy: A Portrait of the Hacker As a Young Man

The arresting, untold story of how a 15-year-old boy brought down the world’s biggest websites and caused $1.2 billion in damages by crashing the websites of Amazon, CNN, Dell, E*Trade, eBay, and Yahoo!, inciting panic from Silicon Valley to the White House. Equal parts true-crime thriller and exposé, Calce’s cautionary tale will take you on an electrifying tour of hacking and show how its rapid evolution is making the Internet the new frontier for crime in the 21st century.