Name: Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth
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Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth

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-- 6 foot 7 and 220 pounds the last time he was weighed, at a detention facility in Long Beach, California on June 26. And yet he's getting bigger, because Cosmo -- also known as , the social-engineering mastermind who weaseled his way past security systems at Amazon, Apple, AT&amp;T, PayPal, AOL, Netflix, Network Solutions, and Microsoft -- is just 15 years old.He turns 16 next March, and he may very well do so inside a prison cell.Cosmo was arrested along with dozens of others targeting credit card fraud. It is the day before his court date, but he doesn’t know which task force is...

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