Hackers 🎥 1995 Movie Info

Plot Summary

11-year-old Dade “Zero Cool” Murphy is banned from owning or operating computers and touch-tone telephones, until his 18th birthday, after his family is fined US$45,000 for his crashing of 1,507 computer systems, causing a seven-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange. Seven years later, on his 18th birthday, Dade has moved to New York City with his mother, as his ban is lifted. He hacks into a local television station and changes the broadcast from a infomercial to an episode of The Outer Limits. Another hacker by the handle of “Acid Burn” counters Dade’s attack. Dade identifies himself as “Crash Override”.

Dade is eventually kicked out of the TV station by Acid Burn. At school, Dade becomes part of a group of hackers: Ramon “The Phantom Phreak” Sanchez, Emmanuel “Cereal Killer” Goldstein, Paul “Lord Nikon” Cook, Joey Pardella and Kate “Acid Burn” Libby—the hacker who kicked him out of the TV station earlier. Joey, out to prove his skills, breaks into a “Gibson” supercomputer owned by the Ellingson Mineral Corporation. While he is downloading a garbage file as proof of his feat, his mother disconnects his computer, leaving him with a fragmented file. However, his intrusion has been noticed and brought to the attention of computer security officer Eugene “The Plague” Belford, a former hacker.

Plague realizes the garbage file being downloaded is a worm he himself inserted to defraud Ellingson. Claiming the file is the code to the “Da Vinci” computer virus that will capsize the company’s oil tanker fleet, and pretending the hackers are to blame, he enlists the US Secret Service to recover the file. In fact, Plague had inserted the “Da Vinci” virus as a red herring to cover for his worm. Joey is arrested and his computer searched, but he had hidden the disk containing the file.

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