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The Wikileaks Mole
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
January 29th, 2014
How a teenage misfit became the keep of Julian Assange's darkest secrets - only to betray him.
Anonymous Vs. Steubenville
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
December 14th, 2013
Online vigilante Deric Lostutter helped expose the cover-up in the Steubenville rape case. Now he's facing more jail time than the convicted rapists.
Sale of the Century
Written by David Kushner, Playboy
May 19th, 2013
Matthew Cox was the world's greatest real estate fraudster - unti the bubble burst. With the law on his tail, no matter how much plastic surgery he had to hide his identity, he couldn't escape his own face in the mirror.
The Last Hillbilly Hero
Written by David Kushner, Maxim
October 1st, 2012
Crime, whiskey & homemade sex machines: The life, death and legacy of Popcorn Sutton, America's greatest moonshiner.
Sponge-Fraud!
Written by David Kushner, Vanity Fair
July 6th, 2012
Artist Todd White seemingly had it all. With a multi-million-dollar art brand, collectors and clients ranging from Sylvester Stallone to Coca-Cola, and a burgeoning reputation in art-mad Britain, his days as lead character designer of SpongeBob SquarePant
The Man Who Hacked Hollywood
Written by David Kushner, GQ
April 24th, 2012
How a lonely, self-taught hacker found his way into the private emails of movie stars – and into the underworld of the celebrity-skin business.
Undercover Anarchist
Written by David Kushner, Rolling Stone
March 1st, 2012
What happens when a cop falls in love with the radicals he's spying on? Mark Kennedy found out the hard way.
The Hacker is Watching
Written by David Kushner, GQ
January 17th, 2012
Every online scam begins more or less the same—a random e-mail, a sketchy attachment. But every so often, a new type of hacker comes along. Someone who rewrites the rules, not just the code. He secretly burrows his way into your hard drive, then into your
Murder By Text
Written by David Kushner, Vanity Fair
October 28th, 2011
Kim Proctor was no different than your ordinary teenage girl. Easily hurt by insults and just as easily swayed by compliments, she dwelled in an angsty purgatory familiar to most adolescents. But when Kim went from average kid to missing girl, her storyli
The All-American Bank Heist
Written by David Kushner, GQ
October 1st, 2010
It's a weekly occurence these days: the kooky bank robbery as seen on the local news. But every so often along comes a scheme of such ingenuity, such precision, that you can't help but stop and appreciate the craftsmanship. This is the tale of the fall
A Simple Scheme to Rob 45,700,000 People
Written by David Kushner, Boston Magazine
April 2nd, 2010
Three years ago a group of computer geeks slipped into the servers at Framingham-based TJX — the parent company of T. J. Maxx — and orchestrated the world’s biggest identity heist.