Alejandro Caceres, a Colombian-American cybersecurity entrepreneur, reveals his real identity as P4x and takes matters into his own hands to send a message to North Korean spies who targeted him. Despite reporting the targeting to the FBI, Caceres received no government support and decided to take revenge on the regime of Kim Jong Un.
P4x ’s real identity, revealed here for the first time, is Alejandro Caceres, a 38-year-old Colombian-American cybersecurity entrepreneur with hacker tattoos on both arms, unruly dark brown hair, a very high tolerance for risk, and a very personal grudge. Like many other US hackers and security researchers, Caceres had been personally targeted by North Korean spies who aimed to steal his intrusion tools. He had detailed that targeting to the FBI but received no real government support .
So he decided to take matters into his own hands and to send a message to the regime of Kim Jong Un: Messing with American hackers would have consequences. “It felt like the right thing to do here,” Caceres told WIRED at the time. “If they don’t see we have teeth, it’s just going to keep comin
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