Marcus Hutchins single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Hutchins saved the internet from a piece of malware called WannaCry, which destroyed data on hundreds of thousands of computers. Hutchins was able to find and trigger the kill switch in its code, stopping WannaCry from wreaking havoc on the world. To learn more about Hutchins life, including how despite saving the world from the cyber threat, he was still arrested by the FBI, head on to Wired.
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