The Mega'Transition' of a Hacker

                Shahzad Shaikha A.K.A. Don420, now in his 30’s, a Pakistani hacker revealed how he got a job at a bank by breaking into its website in 2008. He found a very different way to use his skills to make a living and assure a legitimate future job. He made a banking company bring down to its knees for appointing him a job interview, by hacking its secure website and accessing information of its customers. This was the only way he could think of for building his lifelong and legal hacking career. 

               He stated, “Hacking a government website is easy. No one there seems to have thought of security. I could do it in my sleep.”  but it was one of his hardest tasks ever. It cost him many sleepless nights to achieve his goal. During this entire process, he toughened himself to show the managing department of the bank about the flaw he discovered in their security system and being ready to offer his services to resolve the issues. He said, “The entire process took more than a month. Even after they confirmed that I had broken in, they didn't know what to do.”

              He was also worried because of the possibilities of a cybercrime case that could be filed against him by the bank. But eventually they trusted him and after some checks on him, he was appointed. Now, after 3 years, he is in-charge of bank’s website security, once what he used to love to breakthrough.

              Before being appointed by the banking company, Shaikha was a hacker who usually broke into websites, stole vital information and used to call himself an “Online Vandal”. He described himself as awkward geek who feels comfort in the shade of computers. The transition made by Shaikha from a “black-hat hacker”, one who uses his hacking skills towards criminal ends, to a “white-hat hacker”, someone who is gainfully employed as a computer security expert, is one few hackers can manage.

             This story tells us about all those very few hackers who manage to convert their talent into a legal and successful job, leaving behind dozens of them who couldn't manage it and embrace their life of crime.

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