Blackhat

Blackhat

In the wake of a crippling hacking assault on a Hong Kong nuclear plant and Chicago's Mercantile Trade Exchange, Chinese military officer Captain Chen Dawai discovers part of the code used to illegally access the two sites was written by him and his MIT college roommate, Nicholas Hathaway, who is currently behind prison bars. The Chinese contact FBI Special Agent Carol Barrett and she offers Hathaway a deal: early release from his cell in exchange for his expertise to unmask the hacker.