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List of Famous Hackers of all time
List of Famous Hackers of all time
Gary McKinnon

Gary McKinnon, 40, accused of mounting the largest ever hack of United
States government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy
and NASA systems The court has recommended that McKinnon be extradited
to the United States to face charges of illegally accessing 97
computers, causing US$700,000 (400,000 pounds; euro 588,000) in damage.
Jonathan James

The youth, known as "cOmrade" on the Internet, pleaded guilty to
intercepting 3,300 email messages at one of the Defense Department's
most sensitive operations and stealing data from 13 NASA computers,
including some devoted to the new International Space Station. James
gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison
for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. He installed a backdoor
into a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server. The DTRA is an agency of
the Department of Defense charged with reducing the threat to the U.S.
and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional and
special weapons. The backdoor he created enabled him to view sensitive
e-mails and capture employee usernames and passwords.James also cracked
into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7
million. According to the Department of Justice, “The software
supported the International Space Station’s physical environment,
including control of the temperature and humidity within the living
space.” NASA was forced to shut down its computer systems,
ultimately racking up a $41,000 cost.
Adrian Lamo
Dubbed the “homeless hacker,” he used Internet
connections at Kinko’s, coffee shops and libraries to do his
intrusions. In a profile article, “He Hacks by Day, Squats by
Night,” Lamo reflects, “I have a laptop in Pittsburgh, a
change of clothes in D.C. It kind of redefines the term
multi-jurisdictional.”Dubbed the “homeless hacker,”
he used Internet connections at Kinko’s, coffee shops and
libraries to do his intrusions. For his intrusion at The New York
Times, Lamo was ordered to pay approximately $65,000 in restitution. He
was also sentenced to six months of home confinement and two years of
probation, which expired January 16, 2007. Lamo is currently working as
an award-winning journalist and public speaker.
Kevin Mitnick

The Department of Justice describes him as “the most wanted
computer criminal in United States history.” His exploits were
detailed in two movies: Freedom Downtime and Takedown. He started out
exploiting the Los Angeles bus punch card system to get free rides.
Then, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, dabbled in phone phreaking.
Although there were numerous offenses, Mitnick was ultimately convicted
for breaking into the Digital Equipment Corporation’s computer
network and stealing software.Today, Mitnick has been able to move past
his role as a black hat hacker and become a productive member of
society. He served five years, about 8 months of it in solitary
confinement, and is now a computer security consultant, author and
speaker.
Kevin Poulsen

Also known as Dark Dante, Poulsen gained recognition for his hack of LA
radio’s KIIS-FM phone lines, (taing over all of the
station’s phone lines) which earned him a brand new Porsche,
among other items. Law enforcement dubbed him “the Hannibal
Lecter of computer crime.”Authorities began to pursue Poulsen
after he hacked into a federal investigation database. During this
pursuit, he further drew the ire of the FBI by hacking into federal
computers for wiretap information.His hacking specialty, however,
revolved around telephones. Poulsen’s most famous hack, In a
related feat, Poulsen also “reactivated old Yellow Page escort
telephone numbers for an acquaintance who then ran a virtual escort
agency.” Later, when his photo came up on the show Unsolved
Mysteries, 1-800 phone lines for the program crashed. Ultimately,
Poulsen was captured in a supermarket and served a sentence of five
years.Since serving time, Poulsen has worked as a journalist. He is now
a senior editor for Wired News. His most prominent article details his
work on identifying 744 sex offenders with MySpace profiles.
Robert Tappan Morris

Morris, son of former National Security Agency scientist Robert Morris,
is known as the creator of the Morris Worm, the first computer worm to
be unleashed on the Internet. As a result of this crime, he was the
first person prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris wrote the code for the worm while he was a student at
Cornell. He asserts that he intended to use it to see how large the
Internet was. The worm, however, replicated itself excessively, slowing
computers down so that they were no longer usable. It is not possible
to know exactly how many computers were affected, but experts estimate
an impact of 6,000 machines. He was sentenced to three years’
probation, 400 hours of community service and a fined $10,500.Morris is
currently working as a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He principally researches
computer network architectures including distributed hash tables such
as Chord and wireless mesh networks such as Roofnet.
Vladimir Levin

Levin accessed the accounts of several large corporate customers of
Citibank via their dial-up wire transfer service (Financial
Institutions Citibank Cash Manager) and transferred funds to accounts
set up by accomplices in Finland, the United States, the Netherlands,
Germany and Israel.In 2005 an alleged member of the former St.
Petersburg hacker group, claiming to be one of the original Citibank
penetrators, published under the name ArkanoiD a memorandum on popular
Provider.net.ru website dedicated to telecom market.According to him,
Levin was not actually a scientist (mathematician, biologist or the
like) but a kind of ordinary system administrator who managed to get
hands on the ready data about how to penetrate in Citibank machines and
then exploit them.ArkanoiD emphasized all the communications were
carried over X.25 network and the Internet was not involved.
ArkanoiD’s group in 1994 found out Citibank systems were
unprotected and it spent several weeks examining the structure of the
bank’s USA-based networks remotely. Members of the group played
around with systems’ tools (e.g. were installing and running
games) and were unnoticed by the bank’s staff. Penetrators did
not plan to conduct a robbery for their personal safety and stopped
their activities at some time. Someone of them later handed over the
crucial access data to Levin (reportedly for the stated $100).
David Smith

David Smith, the author of the e-mail virus known as Melissa, which
swamped computers around the world, spreading like a malicious chain
letter. He was facing nearly 40 years in jail . About 63,000 viruses
have rolled through the Internet, causing an estimated $65 billion in
damage, but Smith is the only person to go to federal prison in the
United States
for sending one.
Mark Abene

Abene (born 1972), better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, is a
computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik was once a
member of the Hacker Groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception. In
1994, he served a one-year prison sentence for conspiracy and
unauthorized access to computer and telephone systems.
Phiber Optik was a high-profile hacker in the early
1990s, appearing in The New York Times, Harper’s, Esquire, in
debates and on television. Phiber Optik is an important figure in the
1995 non-fiction book Masters of Deception — The Gang that Ruled
Cyberspace
Onel A. de Guzman
el A. de Guzman, a Filipino computer student, Greatest Hacker of all
time. He was creator of "Love Bug" virus that crippled computer e-mail
systems worldwide.
Chen Ing-hau
He was the creator of one of the deadly virus of all time "Chernobyl
computer virus " which had melted down many computers worldwide.
Mudge

"Mudge" along with fellow hackers told the committee that computer
security is so lax, they could disable the entire Internet in a
half-hour.
Tsutomu Shimomura
One of the world's top computer security experts. Shimomura helped
Federal officials track down and arrest computer hacker Kevin Mitnickin
Raleigh Feb. 15, 1995 in connection with a break-in on Shimomura's
computer.
Jon Lech Johansen
Johansen, who became a hero to computer hackers and was deemed a
villain by Hollywood, is on trial for writing and distributing a
program called DeCSS, software which makes it possible to copy
protected DVD films. Prosecutors have asked to have his computers
confiscated and called for him to pay $1,400 in court costs.
Dmitry Sklyarov
Russian computer programmer who was charged with violating
copyrights, Sklyarov was jailed after developing software that allows
the user to circumvent the copyright protections in Adobe Systems eBook
reader program.
Dennis Moran

Moran, known on the Web as "Coolio," pleaded guilty to hacking into
national computer sites last year belonging to the Army, the Air Force
and the anti-drug Dare.com.
Famous Three Master Hackers
Some Grand Famous Hackers of Life Time:
Richard Stallman
He
was the founder of GNU Projects. Stallman, who prefers to be called
rms, got his start hacking at MIT. He worked as a "staff hacker" on the
Emacs project and others. He was a critic of restricted computer access
in the lab. When a password system was installed, Stallman broke it
down, resetting passwords to null strings, then sent users messages
informing them of the removal of the password system.
Linus Torvalds
 Father of Linux is a good hacker of all time.
Stephen Wozniak
"Woz" is famous for being the "other Steve" of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO
Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. Woz got his start in hacking
making blue boxes, devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms
to make free long-distance calls. After reading an article about phone
phreaking in Esquire, Wozniak called up his buddy Jobs. The pair did
research on frequencies, then built and sold blue boxes to their
classmates in college. Wozniak even used a blue box to call the Pope
while pretending to be Henry Kissinger.
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