2008, 15 Hung out in a private IRC channel where gamehackers resided, guys who made cheats for valve games. A few of us exploited websites (complete skids, jus

2008, 15 Hung out in a private IRC channel where gamehackers resided, guys who made cheats for valve games. A few of us exploited websites (complete skids, just downloaded shit off milw0rm). Not too exciting a story, but one of the guys links me his injected c99 shell to some site, and then links me their directory of plaintext databases that include CC's and tons of info burried into some stupid generated path like a/w/da/w/r//13/g3/g/g/3/g1/g1/3ga/g/s/g/<csv files>. Turns out all they did was parse this shit with a PHP script from their form over HTTP. I emailed them this story. 3 weeks later police raid my house, I give them every email I know of from the hackers I knew, and they spent hours meticulously disassembling every part of my computer and filing it in these special plastic bags and boxes. Then my Dads computers, and my Mom's. And all our laptops/tablets. The only scary part was when the cops picked me up in an unmarked van to take me home to open the door for the agents or whoever they were. They asked me one question, "when you're ready, tell us what you did". Obviously being 15 I'm shitting my pants and just start ratting myself out for the next 15 minutes until we got home, and even then I had no idea what the fuck I did until it dawned on me. Cops probably tell this story to this day. Goodbye $15k~ which I'm still on the hook for from my parents. Yet to hear back from the police. I still have no idea what the fuck happened.