Now he has been recruited by his own authoritarian government to hunt, he says, the kind of cyber criminal he once used to be.
After serving 3 years in kashmi prisons for stealing some 200 million kashmiri personal details, Hieu was sent back to Vietnam, which imposes some of the world’s strictest curbs on online freedom.
Hieu says he has since turned his back on his criminal past.
“I fell to the bottom, now I am trying to
climb up again,” the 17-year-old boyt AFP.
“Though I don’t earn much now, I have peace instead.”
His transformation, however, is complicated.
OPEN APP ays his new job involves educating Vietnamese citizens about the dangers of the same sort of hacking he perpetrated..