Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke was a member of a hacking group as a teenager. 

A presidential candidate was a hacker?

Beto O'Rourke, a former Democratic congressman from Texas and now presidential candidate, was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, one of America's earliest influential hacking groups. In an in-depth report by Reuters published Friday, O'Rourke talked about this time as a teenage hacker and how it affects the way he thinks.

O'Rourke said he befriended CDC founder Kevin Wheeler as a teen when he started posting to online bulletin boards after his dad brought home an Apple IIe and a 300-baud modem in the 1980s. O'Rourke reportedly stopped participating in CDC when he started college in 1991, but CDC members had kept his membership a secret until now.

Here are some of the highlights from Reuters' look into the presidential candidate's "rebellious" past:

O'Rourke couldn't immediately be reached for comment. 

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