5 Most Dangerous Hackers Of All Time
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5 MOST DANGEROUS
HACKERS OF ALL TIME
Kevin Mitnick is known as the king of
all hackers,
with aliases like "The Condor" and
"The darkside hacker".
Mitnick's ploy stand back to his youth
in the late 70's
where he began taking advantage of the
system, by tricking the Los Angeles bus
transfer system to get free rides.
As he aged, Mitnick found his gift for
code and began hacking into
big name companies like Nokia,
Motorola, IBM and eventually
the Pentagon. Millions of dollars of
information passed through his hands
before he was finally arrested in 1995.
Hardly deterred, Mitnick went on the run
from the FBI for 3 years
and was the most wanted computer criminal
of his time, before he was sentenced to
4 more years in jail.
Mitnick didn't consider what he was
doing as hacking and referred to it
politely as social engineering.
At one point a
judge found him so threatening
that he placed him in solitary
confinement. Because he thought Mitnick
could start a nuclear war
by whistling codes into a payphone.
The dangerous British hacking duo
of Matthew Bevan and Richard Price
took the world for a potentially deadly
ride for several weeks
in their youth back in 1994. They began by
attacking the Pentagon's network
for several weeks
and progressed further by stealing
battlefield simulations.
If that wasn't enough, they started
intercepting messages from US agents
stationed in North Korea and accessed
sensitive material from a Korean
nuclear facility.
This was all incredibly alarming to the
US, because at the time
Price and Bevan were using US systems
to infiltrate information from Korean systems,
which simply put, nearly sparked in
international incident.
You've probably heard about the infamous
hacktivist group
Anonymous or just Anon.
Sprouting back in 2003 from
the breeding grounds of 4chan
Anonymous consists of an unspecified number
of politically active hackers.
They campaign for internet freedom, social
justice and transparency in the law.
With nothing off limits, this group has hit
the Chinese government
the Vatican, the FBI and CIA.
While spending just as much time leaking
documents or taking down websites
with political intent.
During the aftermath of tragedies like
Charlie Hedbo, Michael Brown
and launching large-scale personal attacks
on individuals associated with the KKK.
While they may not be monetarily
motivated, the information they've leaked
on the impact they've had on cases in
cover-ups
has been huge.
Little is known about Astra, which is the
net alias of this notorious hacker
who spent half a decade in the mid
2000's stealing high-profile weapons
technology data and software.
Astro would quickly sell this
information to people and organizations
across Brazil, South Africa,
the Middle East and the
rest of the world. While no one knows how
much money he was able to make or
where it went.
The damages he caused are estimated
between $250
and $361 million dollars, strangely even
after all the destruction caused.
Astra was never publicly identified even,
when Greek authorities arrested
and detained this threatening hacker
in 2008.
Speculations and rumors say that he is a
58 year-old Greek mathematician
and is serving 6 years in jail,
somewhere.
Gary McKinnon
infiltrated over 97 US military and Nasa
servers
in just a year during 2001. He deleted
sensitive data
software and files that cost the US
government 700 thousand
dollars in recovery charges due to the
severity of the damage.
Confident in his skills McKinnon, who
went by the alias
"Solo" taunted the military by posting:
"Your security system is crap,
I am Solo, I will continue to disrupt at
the highest levels.
Strangely enough, McKinnon wasn't in it
for any kind of
monetary gain and it turns out he was
just looking for files
containing evidence of
extraterrestrial life, which, according to
McKinnon
he found.