DARKMARKET

A year after CarderPlanet was founded in 2001, Script invited his hacker friends to the First Worldwide Carders’ Conference in Odessa — the world’s first ever cybercrime convention — to celebrate the trail- blazing website. This group could boast the same incredible cyber ability as the members of the Hacker Republic, the secret group to which heroine Lisbeth Salander belonged under her nickname, Wasp, in Stieg Larsson’s best-selling The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

But there was nothing fictional about Script and his friends. Carder- Planet was for real.