Cosmo the God, a hacking wunderkind brought down to earth

Cosmo is huge — 2 metres tall and 91 kilograms the last time he was weighed, at a detention facility in Long Beach, California on 26 June. And yet he’s getting bigger, because Cosmo — also known as Cosmo the God, the social-engineering mastermind who weaselled his way past security systems at Amazon, Apple, AT&T, PayPal, AOL, Netflix, Network Solutions, and Microsoft– is just 15 years old.

He turns 16 next March, and he may very well do so inside a prison cell.