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on the hacker's trail is Joe Stewart. The former bass-guitarist-turned-cyber-sleuth stumbled onto the case in February.
Since then, the 36-year-old Stewart has spent weeks in his office, in a
nondescript building next to a half-abandoned strip mall here,
virtually chasing the mysterious perpetrator across several continents.
Stewart early on thought he had traced the scammer to China, then realized it was a false lead. Only when the perpetrator stumbled did Stewart get a break in the case.