Barely a week goes by without a high-profile hack or data breach appearing in the news, whether it’s a movie studio or the database of your favourite games console.

But who are the perpetrators?

Award-winning independent film director Sean Dunne has produced In Search of the Most Dangerous Town on the Internet, a brand new documentary for Norton by Symantec.

The 20-minute documentary in a fascinating exploration of cybercrime and hacker culture, taking a look at the socioeconomic factors that affect Romania’s underground information economy.

Nicknamed “Hackerville”, the town of Râmnicu Vâlcea in Romania is one of the world’s largest communities of highly sophisticated hackers.

Watch the trailer…

In Search of the Most Dangerous Town on the Internet features interviews with convicted a number of hackers and scammers, whose list of targets includes everyone from NASA, the European Space Agency, George Bush and Hillary Clinton to even UK’s Royal Navy.

Of course, hacking itself isn’t illegal unless you’re compromising a system without the owner’s permission – lots of big companies now pay hackers to better secure their own systems.

Find out more on the official website, like the Facebook page or follow Norton on Twitter (#MostDangerousTown).

This post has been sponsored by Norton, but all thoughts are our own.