"Hacker" follows Alex Danyliuk (Callan McAuliffe), a teenager learning the ins and outs of computer programming. When his family hits financial trouble, he turns to a life of online crime and identity theft, fueled by rage at the banking institutions’ status quo. Along the way he meets Sye (Daniel Eric Gold), a street-wise hustler who introduces him to the world of black market trading, and Kira (Lorraine Nicholson), a young hacker secretly working as an FBI mole. After quickly finding success in causing financial market chaos, they gain the attention of Z - a mysterious, masked figure who’s the head of an online crime group and a number one target of the FBI.