Billions of dollars were lost and countless patient records destroyed when, in May 2017, the computer virus ‘WannaCry’ infected around half a million computers worldwide.
But the downfall of the devastating computer code was brought about not by any sophisticated tech organisation or government agency – but by a single, 22-year-old reclusive cybersecurity expert living in rural England. Still, the fame that came with “saving the internet’ came at a cost – when Marcus Hutchins’ past cyber crimes got dragged into the limelight.
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