Super Users

Kurtis Minder is the middleman between hackers and companies with a lot to lose. He liaises with criminals, either for the release of data that’s being held hostage, or for assurances that the bad guys won't release sensitive information – including trade secrets, or personal information about high-ranking employees.

Diver Jared Leisek ​finds the bodies of people who have been missing underwater. Sometimes they have been missing for weeks, sometimes it’s been decades.

Sue Black has dedicated her life to catching child sex abusers. In the fight against some of the world’s most horrendous crimes Sue explains that although DNA has often been the gold standard, hands may hold the key to catching sex abusers.

Tens of thousands of Black girls and women go missing every year, but their faces are rarely the ones we see on the news.

In Syria’s Raqqa, locals tell stories of a mass grave used by ISIS to dump bodies. By using a drone and gathering evidence posted online, the Digital Investigations Lab at Human Rights Watch pieces together what happened, and who may be down there.

As the world watches the war unfold in Ukraine, many normal people with unique skills are done feeling helpless.

Denials and blame-shifting have long been the go-to for Putin’s regime. But since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin disinformation machine has gone into overdrive.

An elite group of drone operators is leading the charge in Ukraine’s David-and-Goliath defence against Putin’s Russia.

Paloma Galzi is one of a handful of full-time forensic artists in the U.S. Combining science and art, her work creates age progressions of long-term missing children. Her work on cases has successfully brought numerous missing kids home safely.

Coder and TikToker, Sean Wiggs, regularly asks his followers to spam anti-union employers with fake job applications.

In January 2020, Kwajo Tweneboa watched his father fall ill with terminal cancer. But rather than dying in peaceful surroundings, their South London housing association home was full of cockroaches, mice and mould.

Blogger Jacob Bogle often receives this warning, “State-sponsored actors are attempting to hack into your account.”

Russian soldiers are banned from using their smartphones. But a lack of discipline and a desire for attention means they use them anyway. Their posts online provide a wealth of data about their side of the war.

It's hacker versus scammer. Scam baiter beats call center scammers at their own game. He’s able to hack their computer systems and watch their every move as they try to trick people out of their life savings.

In Iran, journalism is a dangerous game. As the regime kills protestors on the street, citizens are determined to get the word out to the rest of the world. But, how do you expose a government which views information as the enemy and arrests, tortures, and even kills journalists?