Telstra Offshoot Hires Teen Hacker ‘Akill’

TelstraClear, Telstra’s New Zealand subsidiary, has hired one of the worlds best known hackers — a teenager known as Akill. Nineteen-year-old Owen Thor Walker became the subject of a US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) cyber crime investigation spanning the United States, Europe and New Zealand and dubbed Bot Roast. New Zealand police finally caught him last year and he admitted to being the ring-leader, code-named Akill, of a group known as the A-Team