World Top 5 Hackers Of All The Times

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1-Kevin Mitnick:
Sometime cyber criminals settle down on the straight and narrow but not of course before becoming the most wanted computer criminal in US history Kevin feats would also be featured in a total of two films. He started by hacking digital equipment corporations burning of a year in a prison and three years of supervised to release but of course not long before his time would end he would disappear and begin his famous two-and-a-half year hacking spree his list is extensive but includes hacking targets in the national defense and stealing multiple corporate secrets again. He would be caught and ended up serving five years in prison having had his fun with computer hacking.He would soon become a public speaker and operate his own company met-net security consultant in 2002. He would write the art of deception explaining how we didn’t use hacking software or technology but rather manipulated people into giving him the codes and passwords he needed.

2- Jonathan James:
Jonathan James stories is a classic one at the right age of only 15. He act in a network owned by bell-south Miami Dade the US department of Defense and of course NASA the last being the most impressive and well destructive. He ended up downloading enough source code to learn how the ISS operated that information is worth roughly 1.7 million dollars NASA three entire weeks to investigate the breach costing them roughly $41,000 after serving time in prison. He was implicated in a large strain of attacks on multiple large companies in 2007 he denied any involvement there was of course and investigation despite convincing many official that he was innocent in 2008. He soon after committed suicide likely because it looked like he would have been blamed for several crimes that he may have not committed.

3-Gary Mckinnon:
How much damage can one lone computer hacker do hacker grammar Canon showed us when he broke into the US military’s computer systems.When he first began his hacking career he claim his reason for acting the US military in NASA was to find an uncover UFO files honorable as his attention is may have been.He of course deleted a few files will in the system he also left a calling card reading your security is crap and perhaps one of the biggest oopsies of all time. The files he deleted Cast over 2000 US military computers to shut down for a full 24 hours but he was not done yet after the 9/11 terrorist attacks he deleted weapon logs of the US Naval base stopping munitions supply deliveries to the navy Atlantic fleet potentially killing dozens of soldiers who were left without ammunition.

4- Albert Gonzalez :
Albert Gonzalez if you thought all your online accounts were perfectly safe think again not even the largest of online banks with their seemingly top-notch security were safe from Albert Gonzalez. Over the years of 2005,2006 in 2007 he manage to steal around 170 million debit credit and ATM card using a series of sniffers like a track and log digital traffic. He would then end up reselling the information for an unknown amount of money but we know must have been quite a bit because he later throws himself a $75,000 birthday party but you can’t go about flaunting your ill- gotten wealth for too long before being caught after several trials across 2009. Albert would eventually be arrested in 2010 and sentenced to 20 years in Federal prison. He would later become famous for his efforts on episode 40 of CNBC show American greed.

5-Jeans and James and Jetta:
Why spend your time hacking into computers and businesses one by one when you can create an army of computers to do it for you. Jennsen,James and jetta managed a feat he manage to hijack 500,000 computer in 2004 using a virus called RX bog and use them to take down what ever site he pleased. He actually open up and advertised two services and for a price he could take down and he say you wanted and he had everything you would expect an online service to have bought rental is competitive and pricing advice on the number of bots that would be needed to take down a certain site.He was caught not long after wards in a string operation name operation bot roast involving a client that ended up becoming an Undercover agent. He would lose the $58,000.His legal businesses had earned them and spend a total of five years in prison.

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