A top New Zealand telecommunications company has hired a teenager who admitted to taking part in an international cyber-crime network.
TelstraClear said former hacker Owen Thor Walker was advising corporate customers on internet crime.
Mr Walker had been at the centre of a criminal network that infiltrated more than a million computers globally.
He was investigated by the authorities in the US, Europe and New Zealand while he was just 16 and still at school.
As well as taking part in an advertising campaign, Mr Walker had delivered a series of seminars to help senior executives and customers understand the security threats to their networks, said TelstraClear spokesman Chris Mirams.
"It was really just ... to let them know the type of cyber threats that are out there, developing," said Mr Mirams, according to the Associated Press news agency. - BBC
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