Kevin Mitnick (1963 - 2023) was a computer security consultant, author, and
convicted hacker. He was known as the world's most famous hacker and the
most elusive computer break-in artist in history.
Mitnick's "career" began as a teenager when he learned to get free bus tickets.
He and his friends would search dumpsters for computer information. In
1981, at the age of 17, he was arrested for hacking into Pacific Bell's
computers.
Mitnick was sought for gaining illegal access to about 20,000 credit card
numbers, causing millions of dollars in damage to corporate computer
operations, and stealing software. In 1995, he was arrested and spent five
years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes.
After his release, Mitnick became a trusted security consultant to the Fortune
500 and governments worldwide. He is also a bestselling author and a top
cybersecurity keynote speaker.
Adrián Lamo, Hacker Who
Reported Chelsea Manning to
the F.B.I., Dies at 37
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Adrian Lamo, a hacker who made headlines for breaking into the computer networks of The
New York Times and other major corporations, in 2011. Mr. Lamo, 37, was found dead on
Wednesday in a Kansas apartment.Credit...Patrick Semansky/Associated Press
Albert Gonzalez
Photo of Albert Gonzalez by U.S. Secret Service (pre-2009)
Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker, computer criminal and police
informer,[1] who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent
reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the biggest such fraud
in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL injection to deploy backdoors on several
corporate systems in order to launch packet sniffing (specifically, ARP Spoofing) attacks which
allowed him to steal computer data from internal corporate networks.[2]
During his spree, he was said to have thrown himself a $75,000 birthday party and complained
about having to count $340,000 by hand after his currency-counting machine broke. Gonzalez
stayed at lavish hotels but his formal homes were modest. [3] He, along with his team, were featured
on the 5th-season episode of the CNBC series American Greed titled: "Episode 40: Hackers:
Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin'".[4]
Matthew Bevan
Mathew Bevan is a British hacker from Cardiff, Wales. In 1996 he was arrested for hacking into
secure US government networks under the handle "Kuji". He was 21 when he hacked into the
files of the Griffiss Air Force Base Research Laboratory in New York
[ [http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1996_hr/s960605b.htm Security in Cyberspace: U.S. Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations] ] .Intent on proving a UFO Conspiracy Theory
[ [http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=42&id=13 Phrack magazine 4 Issue 42] ] ; his sole
tool was a Commodore Amiga loaded with a blueboxing program called Roxbox.
He was one of two hackers said to have "nearly started a third world war" according to
Supervisory Special Agent Jim Christy [ [http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1996_hr/s960605b.htm
Security in Cyberspace: U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations] ] , at the time
working for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations
