

The premiere episode introduces Julius Kivimäki, a Finnish teenager who, by the age of 14, had fallen into the world of cybercrime. This episode establishes his early involvement with a group of criminal hackers, detailing his role in mass data breaches and the use of "swatting" to terrorize his targets. It also delves into one of his most infamous acts: the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox Live platforms, which left millions of gamers unable to play on Christmas day in 2014.
The premiere episode introduces Julius Kivimäki, a Finnish teenager who, by the age of 14, had fallen into the world of cybercrime. This episode establishes his early involvement with a group of criminal hackers, detailing his role in mass data breaches and the use of "swatting" to terrorize his targets. It also delves into one of his most infamous acts: the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox Live platforms, which left millions of gamers unable to play on Christmas day in 2014.
Kivimäki begins falsely reporting emergencies to trigger a law enforcement response, wreaking havoc on an FBI agent and a community in Connecticut.