Kingpin (book)

{{short description|2011 book by Kevin Poulsen}}

{{Infobox book

|name=Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

| image = Kingpin (book).jpg

|author=Kevin Poulsen

|published=2011

|genre=True crime

|country=United States

|language=English

|publisher=Crown Publishing Group

|isbn=978-0-307-58868-5

}}

Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground is a 2011 non-fiction book written by Kevin Poulsen.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/business/20shelves.html?_r=0|title=Behind a Coup of Cybercrime|author=Burrough, Bryan|date=March 19, 2011}}

Plot

Poulsen tells the story of real life computer hacker Max Butler, who, under the alias Iceman, stole access to 1.8 million credit card accounts.

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