'I Was a Weird Kid': Jailhouse Confessions of a Teen Hacker

Noah Urban, 18-year-old at the time, was living in Palm Coast, Florida when a stark Telegram video from 2022 showed a kidnapping demand that drove him to transfer $200,000 to captors. The clip depicted a substantially injured claimant begging for help, with the caller identifying Urban by one of his aliases. The Bloomberg feature describes Urban as having a role in the notorious Scattered Spider gang, and it chronicles his jailhouse confessions in the wake of that involvement.

The piece also notes the scene unfolded in a September afternoon in 2022, illustrating the coercive tactics used by the group. The account frames Urban’s experiences within the broader context of a multimillion-dollar hacking spree linked to Scattered Spider, and it presents his reflections as part of a broader jailhouse narrative. The story, published on 19 September 2025, highlights how a teenager’s actions within the gang shaped his path and the criminal investigations that followed.