Hiếu Minh Ngô, also known as Hieu PC, was born in Gia Lai, Vietnam. Since he returned to Vietnam in 2020 after completing a 13-year prison sentence in the United States for stealing and selling the data of more than 200 million Americans, he has been focusing on improving cybersecurity practices and fighting against fraud. He joined Vietnam’s National Cybersecurity Center as a cybersecurity expert and later launched Chongluadao (chongluadao.vn), an initiative to protect internet users from scams. He is currently employed part-time as a cyber threat investigator at TRM Labs.