“My Habit Was Collecting” A cyber prodigy defended companies against intrusion while continuing to amass data through a series of his own hacks.October 31, 2024, 1:01 AM UTCPepijn Van der Stap stayed up through the night of Jan. 22, 2023, repairing one of his computers in silence save for the whirring of its fan. About an hour before sunrise, he logged in to his account on a cybercrime website. When he did so, a dozen police officers burst into his apartment—a beachfront spot in the Dutch coasta...