What It’s Like for a Hacker to Get Back Online After a Two-Year Internet Ban
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3ekk5/kane-gamble-cracka-back-online-after-a-two-year-internet-ban
On the night of April 19, Kane Gamble was staring at the clock in his bedroom inside his family's home in Leicester, waiting for it to hit midnight.
Gamble, who used to be known online as Cracka, was the most prominent member of the hacking group Crackas With Attitude, or CWA. In late 2015 and early 2016, Gamble wreaked havoc by hacking into the personal accounts of several US government officials, including the AOL email account of then-CIA director John Brennan and the home internet account of then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, as well as several US government portals and tools. At the time, Gamble was just 15 years old.