Russian Hackers: The Beginning (Season 1)

Russian Hackers: The Beginning (2022) is documentary filmmaker Andrei Loshak's mini-series, and you can watch it online on iFILM. The investigation traces how small-time online scammers grew into a brand the whole world learned to fear.

Loshak starts in the early 1990s, back when a crime committed over the internet still sounded like science fiction, and follows the thread into the 2010s. Through the lives of the era's most notorious hackers, the film lays out a chain: easy money, the thrill, the arrests, and the late realization of how big it had all become. Running underneath is a years-long chase between the hackers and the authorities in both Russia and the United States.

No gloss here — real names, real prison terms, an 18+ rating. A solid pick if you've worked through cybercrime true crime and want the story from the Russian side. Stream Russian Hackers: The Beginning (2022) online on iFILM.