Stefan Matthews, an IT expert whom Wright had known for
ten years, since they both worked for the
online gambling site
Centrebet. In those days, around
2007, Wright was often hired as a security analyst by such firms, deploying his skills as a computer scientist (and his experience as a hacker) to make life difficult for fraudsters.
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