Government Begs Notorious Hacker For Help After Nuclear Power Plant Gets Hacked
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00:00It's a normal day at a power plant in Hong Kong when suddenly a mysterious person hacks into their
00:04system. The cooling machine is shut down and soon the heat causes a big explosion. Hundreds of
00:09workers are killed or severely wounded and people within a 10-kilometer radius are evacuated.
00:13Meanwhile in a prison in the USA, hacker Nick is handcuffed and taken out of his cell. The cops find
00:18a hidden device among his things and discover all of the criminals on Nick's block have recently
00:22received some money in their accounts, so they think Nick did it. He immediately denies it so
00:26he's put in solitary confinement, where he exercises to keep himself busy. In China,
00:31Captain Da Ai explains to the government that the power plant was hacked using a remote access tool
00:35or RAT. This was possible because the plant's systems are very old and lack security. It's also
00:40revealed that the same model reactors in the USA were attacked at the same time. Da Ai thinks he
00:45can catch the hacker, but he needs access to the plant's computers to do the tracking. Sadly the
00:49power plant is still incredibly hot and it's impossible to enter, so Da Ai will have to wait
00:53for cool down. Da Ai asks the FBI for help and Agent Carol has to convince her boss that working
00:58with China is a good idea. Eventually Da Ai gets the code from the hacker attack on the American
01:02plant, but he doesn't have the knowledge to crack it. He decides to recruit his sister Lean,
01:07who is a network engineer. That night, the mercantile trade exchange in Chicago is also
01:11targeted by the hacker and all the numbers start going up at an insane speed. The next day the FBI has
01:16a meeting to analyze the case and by looking at the code they conclude the RAT was written by two
01:20people. Da Ai isn't impressed by the report because it's incredibly basic and asks Carol to get Nick
01:25to help them. Nick has a long history of robbing banks with his hacking and Carol thinks it's an
01:29awful idea to trust him, so Da Ai has no choice but to share some secrets. Half of the RAT code was
01:34written by him as a gag while he was in college and the other half was written by Nick. It seems the
01:38hacker stole their code and modified it to do the attacks. If they want to catch this guy, they'll need the
01:43person who truly understands the code. An FBI agent visits Nick in prison, offering to get him out if he helps
01:48them with the case. However Nick reads the document and notices he'll only be out for a couple of
01:53weeks, so he refuses to sign it. Instead he offers a new deal, if he catches the hacker, his sentence
01:58ends. If he doesn't, then they can send him back to jail. The FBI is so desperate that they take his
02:04deal and Da Ai picks Nick up for a warm reunion. During their flight Da Ai shows Nick the modified code
02:08and Carol scolds him, since part of the deal was that Nick could only get computer access under FBI
02:13supervision. Moments later Nick is allowed to look at the terminals of the mercantile trade exchange,
02:17which have the safest firewall. The only way to insert a virus would be in person, but only the boss has access
02:23to it with his thumbprint. Nick looks at the information in the system and discovers someone hid some code in
02:27the boss's USB drive. While thinking about potential suspects, the boss remembers a guy named Lozano who only
02:33worked there for a month and mysteriously disappeared. Later Nick and the siblings analyze the code and notice
02:38unfinished lines. They concluded the hacker needed money fast so he attacked the soy market to fill his account and now he can
02:44spend his time finishing the code. This means he's planning an even bigger attack. Meanwhile the FBI finds Lozano
02:49on the security cameras and by looking at his tattoos, they discover he's a part of a gang and faked his
02:54identity to get the job. Sending a bunch of agents to see him would look suspicious so Nick and Lean
02:58volunteer to do the talking, although Nick is given an ankle bracelet monitor to keep him from running away.
03:03The duo enters Lozano's apartment only to find him dead with a needle in his arm. Nick and Lean check Lozano's
03:08computers and find powerful devices that encrypt all his data and keep him anonymous with no IP address,
03:13which the hacker must have set up for him. There's a mysterious email asking for a meeting and Nick
03:18answers it to confirm time and place. The agent watching over Nick tries to report what happened
03:22but he has no signal, so Nick takes his phone to fix it. He uses this chance to modify the app that
03:27keeps track of his ankle monitor. In the meantime Carol and Daai ask the boss of the trade exchange
03:31market for access to all their client files. At first he refuses because it would break confidentiality,
03:37but he gives in when Carol threatens to tell the press that his market isn't safe anymore.
03:40Once they get all the files, Daai and Carol look at the list of sales until they find three large
03:45volume trades that were timed perfectly to take advantage of the hack. They're linked to bank
03:49accounts in Hong Kong. In the evening Nick and Lei go to a restaurant to wait for the hacker,
03:53but he doesn't show up. Nick notices security cameras and sneaks into the back room to check the
03:57computer. It turns out the hacker has been watching them through the cameras all along.
04:02Checking the information in the camera software Nick notices that the hacker has an IP in Ukraine and
04:06sends him a message, only to get insulted. A furious Nick returns to the main room and tells
04:10Lean they should leave, but at that moment a bunch of thugs enter the restaurant and ask them who
04:14they are. Without a word, Nick starts fighting them using any object he can grab including the
04:18furniture. He manages to bring most of the group down and when the last one comes for him with a
04:22knife, he breaks a bottle to counterattack. And easily wins the fight. Afterward Nick calls Daai to
04:28warn him that the email had been bait and now the hacker knows they're on him. Daai announces they'll
04:32travel to China in the morning to follow the bank accounts, so Nick and Lean spend the rest of the
04:36night getting naughty. The next day the group arrives at the power plant, where they're still
04:40rescuing victims of the explosion. The building is still hot so they have to wait to access the
04:44computer. Next they meet with the local police, who have tracked down the owners of the bank
04:48accounts. They seem to be three average thugs connected to a criminal known as Kasser, so
04:52they must be the hacker's front. The cops have been following them and notice no suspicious
04:56activity, but Nick checks their daily routes at the same time and discovers an address in
05:00common. Daai and Nick go to that location and find a police van doing surveillance on a
05:04Lebanese trafficker. They check the van's security footage and discover that the account owners come
05:09to this place every morning but do nothing but text. With a phone in hand, Nick searches the area
05:13until he finds a special signal and discovers a hidden transmitter in the bushes. They immediately
05:17connect it to a computer and confirm that the three account owners just need to walk by to pick up the
05:22messages from the hacker, which they can delete later to leave no evidence. Sometime later the team
05:26notices that the money in the three accounts has been moved, which means the hacker has cashed out.
05:30When Daai rushes to inform Nick, he discovers he's been doing it with his sister.
05:34The team leaves on a helicopter to go after Kasser and during the ride, Daai tells Nick to reconsider
05:39his relationship with Lean since there's a chance he may go back to jail. By the time they make it to
05:43the location, the team discovers the surveillance officers have been killed. They burst into the
05:48building and search every room, but it appears Kasser and his thugs are gone. There's a hidden passage
05:52in the floor so the team descends to continue their search. Suddenly the criminals open fire to start
05:57killing agents, who immediately shoot back. Kasser is there too and he grabs an agent to use him as a
06:02shield. He shoots a few more incoming men before stabbing his hostage in the neck.
06:06Once Kasser and his men leave the tunnel they get ready to blow it up, but the other half of the team
06:10is already waiting at the exit and they open fire. While the thugs shoot back at them, Kasser activates
06:15the explosives, which make the tunnel crumble and kill all the agents inside. Without this backup,
06:20the team at the exit is overwhelmed and more agents die during the shootout. They have no choice but to
06:24stay hidden behind some containers, which gives the criminals the opening to escape on a boat.
06:28As they sail away, Kasser is angry to notice one of his men is dying. That night Kasser picks up a
06:34special package from traffickers on a big ship before returning to the mainland. In the meantime
06:38Daai is informed that the temperature at the plant has lowered enough for them to go in without
06:41instantly dying. It's still pretty hot though, so they have to protect themselves with hazmat suits
06:46and work fast. When they enter the computer room, they can see that there are still bodies around.
06:51One of the agents collapses under the heat so Nick tells Daai to take him out while he finishes the job.
06:55He breaks an emergency cabinet to get an axe and hits the servers, only for the resulting
06:59vibrations to cause some parts of the ceiling to fall. Nick just keeps going until he opens the
07:04server and retrieves a hard drive. Then Nick and Daai carry the sick agent out together.
07:09After the emergency team lowers the drive's temperature they connect it to a computer and
07:12find fragments of the malware, but it's too corrupted to get any useful information.
07:16Nick remembers that the government got his info back after he tried to delete it when they
07:20arrested him and Carol admits they have a software called Black Widow that could do the job.
07:23She asks her boss for permission but he refuses to lend it to China or a criminal hacker.
07:28Since the software has remote login, Nick volunteers to hack into the government system to use it
07:33anyway. Carol is so desperate that she agrees and the whole team except Lean leaves the room
07:37so they can deny knowing about this if it goes wrong. Nick sends Carol's boss a fake email asking
07:41him to change his password and his malware detects the new one, allowing him to access Black Widow.
07:46The team goes to catch dinner, unaware that someone is following them and putting something
07:50under their car. By the time they come back, Nick has the hacker's IP address. It turns
07:55out his home server is in Indonesia, but Nick can't crack it because it's hosted by a company
07:59exclusive for hackers which means it's bulletproof. Their only option is to go there in person
08:03and get the actual physical drives. Carol won't get any favors after she asked for Black Widow
08:07so Daai promises to talk to his superiors to get them visas and badges that work in Indonesia.
08:12Sometime later Lean manages to get into the hosting company's accounting records and notices
08:16some payments to a software that rents satellite time. The hacker has bought high-resolution shots
08:21of the coast of Malaysia. Meanwhile the Chinese government tells Daai that the FBI has informed
08:25them about Nick hacking into confidential software and they want him back in jail. Daai tries to point
08:30out that without Nick they wouldn't have found the hacker, but his bosses don't listen. The rest of
08:34the team gets to go to Indonesia but Nick must be sent to the USA. In the morning Dwai warns Lean
08:39with a text, so she and Nick immediately sneak out. Carol gets a call from her boss to scold her for what
08:44happened and she tries to explain her hands were tied, but she still gets orders to hand Nick over.
08:48When she goes to his room, he's already gone. They realize Nick modified the agent's monitor app
08:53and quickly fix it to get his current location. Daai secretly meets with Nick to tell him that the
08:58Americans think China has Black Widow because of him, so he asks him to run and promises they'll meet
09:02later in Indonesia. Lean wants to come too but Nick thinks it's too dangerous, so they argue until she
09:07leaves them alone. While Carol and another agent try to follow the bracelet signal, Lean moves ahead and
09:12waits for Nick and Daai at the airport. Nick has a serious conversation with her until she
09:16understands she can't date a fugitive. Their conversation is interrupted when the car suddenly
09:20explodes behind them, instantly killing Daai. Kasser and his men are nearby and open fire,
09:25so Nick has to hold a grieving Lean to keep her hidden. At that moment Carol and her agent arrive
09:30to join the shootout and they manage to kill a couple of thugs, however they are quickly shot down as
09:34well. Nick and Lean use this distraction to run away and they hide inside the subway station,
09:38rushing into the train right before the enemy can catch them. Lean announces she wants revenge and
09:43Nick agrees to bring her along. Moments later Lean pays some crooks to get them fake passports and
09:47remove Nick's ankle monitor. Instead of Indonesia, they decide to go to Malaysia to search for what
09:52the hacker wants. The police are following the monitor's app to find Nick, however it's already
09:56been thrown into the ocean. By bribing the owner of a private plane, Lean and Nick manage to fly to
10:01Malaysia. They follow the coordinates from the satellite shot but the area appears to be empty.
10:06Suddenly they notice some stairs hiding among the rocks and they climb them to find a hatch on top.
10:10They check inside to discover all the machines that keep the local dam running. The water pump
10:15model is the same as the power plants, so Nick deduces that the hacker wants to sabotage the dam
10:19to destroy the tin mines and make a fortune by buying tin options. The previous attacks had only
10:24been practiced to refine the code. Sometime later the duo makes it to Indonesia and buys a bunch of tools
10:29that they set up with their computers in their room. Next Nick gets in a car on top of a parking lot
10:33and pushes a van off the roof to make it fall on the hosting company's building, causing great
10:37damage. Soon the area is filled with cops and emergency services. While everyone is distracted
10:42by the chaos, Nick sneaks in and connects his computer to the server to download some files
10:46and codes. All this is taken back to the room, where he and Lean check the information to confirm
10:51that the hacker has a third version of the rat and is indeed targeting the dam. They also
10:54get his real account information. The next day Lean goes to the bank and tells the receptionist
10:59that she has a presentation with the manager, but she accidentally spilled coffee on her notes. He
11:03agrees to print her a new copy and connects her USB drive, which allows Nick to hack into the bank
11:07system and transfer all of the hacker's money to his own account. Then he sends the hacker a warning
11:12message with a phone number. Eventually they get a call from Kasser, however Nick demands to talk to
11:16the hacker and hangs up. The phone rings again and this time it's Sadak, who is the real hacker and
11:21Kasser's boss. Nick pretends he wants to team up with Sadak and they agree to meet. Expecting things to get
11:26dangerous, Lean brings a bunch of stuff from the store and Nick creates some improvised protection
11:30for his body, he also hides some tools for self-defense. Nick asks Sadak to only bring Kasser,
11:36however he shows up with all his men. Lean sees it from afar and warns Nick, who calls Sadak to
11:41change locations. In the evening, they go to the local festival, but Sadak brings his men again.
11:46They hide in the crowd and push dancers away if necessary. Nick tries to surprise Kasser from behind
11:51but the man turns around and threatens him with his gun. When Kasser gets close enough to pat him,
11:55Nick moves quickly to grab his head and stab him with a screwdriver. Then Nick grabs Kasser's gun
12:00and approaches Sadak, but before he can shoot, Sadak's men open fire. The crowd panics while Nick
12:05fires back, getting hit a few times but also killing both thugs in return. Sadak has a knife and tries
12:11to attack Nick, but the blade gets stuck in his hood. A fight ensues and Nick manages to break Sadak's arm,
12:16creating an opening that allows him to repeatedly stab Sadak until he falls dead. Afterward Nick runs to
12:21reunite with Lean, who takes him back to the car. Thanks to the improvised protection Nick's wounds
12:25aren't deadly and Lean quickly patches him up. The next day the couple leaves Indonesia and starts a
12:30new life using Sadak's money. Make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you can watch more
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