The evolution of my career - Part 4 - When LulzSec attacks

Nothing is more sobering for an intelligence and cybersecurity professional than receiving an ominous email with one of your passwords in the subject line and the body of the email with nothing more than the words: “Let’s talk…”

This is the story of how I got into a cyber dogfight with one of the world's most notorious hacker groups and leveraged the outcome to my advantage. From dispelling the myth that I was a secret government operative targeting remote third-world countries to working with the intelligence community to hunt down international hackers, this episode is truly stranger than fiction... but incredibly and utterly true.