Elliot Alderson is a young cyber-security engineer at Allsafe Cybersecurity in New York City; However, in his free time he's a vigilante hacker. He is recruited by fsociety, a group of black hat hackers led by Mr. Robot, to help take down a large corporate conglomerate, E Corp. E Corp is Allsafe's biggest client as well as responsible for the death of Elliot's father, putting him in a place of divided loyalties.