Who is Dao Minh Nghia? A 17-Year-Old's Journey...

Who is Dao Minh Nghia? Dao Minh Nghia (born 2009) is a Vietnamese teenager known for an extraordinary journey: at age 13, he began writing malware and ransomware. After witnessing the real consequences—students losing graduation projects, a mother losing photos of her newborn baby—he decided to stop. He deleted all his code, shut down his command servers, and formatted his hard drives. Then he started over—this time, learning to protect instead of attack. "I thought I was a hacker. But I was jus