The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

A pioneering true story of computer espionage, this book recounts one man’s relentless pursuit of a hacker who sold stolen U.S. computer data to Soviet intelligence during the Cold War.

In the mid-1980s, Clifford Stoll was an astronomer turned systems administrator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. While investigating a 75-cent accounting error in computer usage logs, he uncovered evidence of unauthorized access to the lab’s systems. This small anomaly would lead to a year-long investigation that became one of the earliest docu…