The "social hacking" aspect might be interesting, if kinda non-technical. Many systems are broken by people sweet talking their way past human protection.
Kevin Mitnick learned technical lingo well enough he could call up somebody's internal help desk and say things like "Hey, this is Bob on a 4231 call over at IBM and I left my DFTRB manual in the truck, could you give me the code to defrabulate a ratzenbobble?" and they'd give him passwords over the phone. Some of the identity theft recently was done by pretending to be a legit company and simply buying the info.