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The Cuckoo's Egg

by Cliff Stoll

  • FINISHED
  • Finished March 2026
  • First published 1989

cybersecurity computing history

The author, an astronomer running a university computer system, tracks down a hacker through a 75-cent accounting error.   It is a first-hand account of an early international computer intrusion.