BY:JASMIN, PRABHJOT, BANDEEP, SUKHJIT,

DAWINDER

The Top 10 Most Prominent Hackers

Johnathan James (c0mrade)

Broke into the Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency

At age of 16 he broke into NASA’s systems to steal software

Acquired software to gain control of the International Space Station’s living environment

Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante)

Broke into FBI’s databaseWas given 5 years prison timeHacked telephone lines of a LA radio station

to be secured a place as the 102nd callerWon a trip to Hawaii and a brand new

Porsche 944Considered the “Hannibal Lecter of computer

crime”

Gary Mckinnon (Solo)

Hacked U.S Department of Defense, Army, Navy, Airforce, and NASA

Suffered from Asperger’s syndromeHacked the government because he believed

that the U.S was hiding information on aliens

Kevin Mitnick

At one point considered the most wanted cyber criminal

Mastermind of computer hackingGained access to modify the phone systems of

Nokia and Motorola

Vladimir Levin

Stole 10 million dollars from citibank clientsOnly $400,000 of the $10 million were

recovered by authoritiesWas said to have coordinated the first ever

internet bank raidStole account numbers and pins then

transferred money to his own account

John Draper

Realized that a toy whistle emitted the same frequency tones used by AT&T switches to route calls

Building off of that, he created “blue boxes” that you can get any amount of long distance calls for free

Gained attention of co-founder of ‘Apple’, Steve Wozniak, who wanted to do phone phreaking himself

Albert Gonzalez

Accused of the biggest ATM and credit card theft in history

Allegedly sold more than 170 million card and ATM numbers

Authorities seized $1.6 million in cash and $1.1 million buried in his parents’ backyard

Sentenced to 20 years in federal prison

Anonymous

Ug Nazi

Responsible for several attacks conducted over the internet

Best known for leaking the personal info of government officials