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Most Wanted: Teen Hacker

2025SeriesSami Kieksi
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A teenager behind attacks with international consequences

Most Wanted: Teen Hacker follows Finnish hacker Julius Kivimäki, later known as Aleksanteri Kivimäki, through cyberattacks and the investigations attempting to identify him. Directed by Sami Kieksi and co-written with Joni Soila, the four-part HBO Max series is produced by Aller Studios. It connects events in Finland with investigators and victims elsewhere.

Hunted by the FBI begins with efforts to identify the hacker known as Zeekill around the DEF CON gathering in Las Vegas. Lives At Stake examines false emergency reports designed to trigger armed police responses, including incidents affecting an FBI agent and a Connecticut community. These stories make clear how an online act can create immediate physical danger.

Disrupted services, exposed records and the people affected

Emergency Landing follows a threat that forced a passenger aircraft carrying Sony executive John Smedley to land, followed by Christmas disruption to PlayStation and Xbox services. The final chapter turns to a healthcare-data breach and renewed international efforts to locate a familiar suspect.

Interviewees include Kivimäki, FBI agents, SWAT personnel, victims and security specialists such as Allison Nixon, Brian Krebs and Mikko Hyppönen. These different perspectives place investigative technique beside the effects on people whose records, homes or safety became part of a hacker's campaign.

Episodes

S01 · E01

Hunted by the FBI

After learning that members of the notorious group Hack the Planet would be attending DEF CON in Las Vegas, the FBI descends upon the annual hacking convention in hopes of confirming the identity of the highly disruptive "Zeekill."

S01 · E02

Lives at Stake

Kivimäki begins falsely reporting emergencies to trigger a law enforcement response, wreaking havoc on an FBI agent and a community in Connecticut.

S01 · E03

Emergency Landing

In 2014, Kivimäki calls in a bomb threat on a passenger plane carrying Sony executive John Smedley, forcing the jet to make an emergency landing. A few months later, Kivimäki shuts down the servers of PlayStation and Xbox on Christmas Day.

S01 · E04

30,000 Victims

After one of the largest healthcare data breaches in history, European officials -- with help from the FBI -- begin to zero in on a familiar suspect.

Episode descriptions: TVmaze · CC BY-SA 4.0

Film details

Format
Documentary series
Release year
2025
Premiere date
2025-09-05
Director
Sami Kieksi
Production companies
Aller Studios
Language
English
Episode runtime
43 min

Catalogue information: TVmaze · CC BY-SA 4.0