Vietnamese Hacker Hieupc: I feel like a serial killer

” My name is Hieupc, my real name is Ngo Minh Hieu. I got the social security information of nearly 200 million Americans. I feel like I’m a serial killer “, Ngo Minh Hieu – hacker is free later 7 years in prison in the US – shared on Zing TV.

The movie about hacker inspired Hieu.

Hieu said, at the age of 13, when he was touched on a computer, he did not know what to hack, and went to search for ways to hack on Google.

“Back then, using dial-up (connecting to the Internet via telephone line – PV) was slow, very costly. I opened CMD on Windows, pressed Hack, see if anything, nothing happened. Go to school. know it’s not that simple “, Hieu said.

In grade 10, Hieu started to earn a lot of money. He hacked a credit card to steal banking information and then sold it back to people.

After finishing high school, he decided to study abroad in New Zealand to change the environment, learn more about networking, computers, and wanted to become a network engineer.

” Thereby, I continue to hack again. I think having money is OK. Consequences are calculated later “, Hieu said.

Hieu remembered, the most shocking time was when the New Zealand police phoned his sister to begin investigating his case.

” I was so bad at that time, I used the bank with my name. They called the phone with all their soul, took all the electronics in the house and sent it to another place. I went to withdraw money, my card was swallowed. I ran away “.

“I think only the country buys an airline ticket and goes straight to Vietnam “, Hieu recalled.

Fortunately for him, the New Zealand government was not too aggressive, just asking for money back to the victim.

Back in Vietnam, he promised himself not to do this anymore, also promised to his parents, and applied to college, but after a short while, he got in touch with his underground friends. . And my friends invited to hack social security numbers.

Selling social security numbers makes more money than hacking credit cards. Bank cards are very dangerous because it involves money and must be done directly. Social Security numbers are easy to grab and sell each information 1 USD to third parties.

” It was very simple at first. It has nothing to do with money, it has nothing to do with banking. It’s okay. But I’m not aware of how important a social security number is.”

“For example, if you lose information, you will forever lose it, never get it back. Because one person only has one number. With that number you can use it to get a bank loan, buy a car, get lost. Unemployment, get unemployment benefits … Up to now, those people still suffer … Great impact “, Hieu said.

“The day I was arrested in the US – February 7, 2013, I remember that day until now”.

In the sentence, Hieu’s most serious crime was to cause tax loss even though he did not make money directly from it.

The sentence Hieu received was 40 years in prison.

Thanks to good renovation, sincere declaration, plus hard work to learn more psychology, marketing, business management, soft skills, more than 25 certificates.

” The more I study, the less my sentence gets reduced.”

“Besides, I also went to share my life experiences, tell my stories to inspire thousands of other inmates. This reduced the 13-year sentence to 7 years. One day, the jailer called my name and announced that I was released , “Hieu recalled.

From his own experience, he advises young people to stop at the right time, to rebuild, and to know “turn the head is the shore”.

The Vietnamese hacker case in the US, according to the KrebsonSecurity page, US officials estimated that Hieu’s service facilitated new account scams at banks and retailers with losses up to 1, 1 billion USD.