Paolo Cirio

Paolo Cirio
Resident

Hacker/Artist Paolo Cirio is best known for having exposed over 200,000 Cayman Islands offshore firms with the work Loophole for All in 2013; the hacking of Facebook through publishing one million users on a dating website with Face to Facebook in 2011; the theft of 60,000 financial news articles with Daily Paywall in 2014 and of e-books from Amazon.com with Amazon Noir in 2006; defrauding Google with GWEI in 2005; and the obfuscation of 15 million U.S. criminal records with Obscurity in 2016. His early works include his cyber attacks against NATO and reporting on its military operations since 2001.

Paolo’s artworks have been featured in ArtForum, Frieze, The Art Newspaper, ARTnews, Mousse Magazine; and covered by global media outlets, such as CNN, Fox News, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Global Village, O Globo, ABC, Daily Mail, Toronto Standard, Der Spiegel, ZEIT, Tagesspiegel, El Pais, Libération, Russia Today, Global Times, Apple Daily HK, among others.

Paolo has lectured at various universities and museums including UC Berkeley,Tate Modern, NYU Law School, Hunter College, MoCA Sydney, and the Courtauld Institute.