PROMINENT HACKERS
Added on: 29th Sep 2015
RAFAEL NUNEZ
Rafael Nunez was a member of the notorious hacking group
World of Hell in 2011. As a member of the group, he got
involved in several high profile attacks, finding websites
with poor security and then defacing them with light-hearted
messages. He was part of the Dan Verton book entitled
“The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers” in 2002.
Today, he is a notorious businessman dwelling in Venezuela.
ANDREW AUERNHEIMER
More commonly known as “Weev,” Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer
was an internet troll who gained media attention because of his
inflammatory, off-topic posts in several online communities and
forums. An American grey hat hacker, Andrew was known for using
several pseudonyms in his operations. He was the one responsible
for the disruption of Amazon’s services in 2009 and for hacking
the website of The New York Times.
MARK ABENE
Known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, Mark Abene was a
New York based hacker who used to be a member of some of the
most notorious hacker groups in the United States, including the
Legion of Doom and the Masters of Deception. He was a
high-profile hacker who targeted large corporations and was
among the most important figures of the Masters of Deception.
Aside from computers, he also explored and hacked
several telecommunication systems.
JULIAN PAUL ASSANGE
An Australian editor and publicist, Julian Paul Assenge is the
founder of WikiLeaks, a site that publishes submissions of
secret information from personal web accounts and news leaks.
Before he became internationally acclaimed for his founding of
WikiLeaks, he was a teenage hacker who published US military
documents. At age 16, he joined the International Subversives group
and hacked computer systems under his pseudonym, “Mendax.”
MIKE CALCE
Michael Demon Calce, also known as the MafiaBoy of
cyberspace, was a high school apprentice at West Island,
Quebec when he got involved in a series of publicized
denial-of-service attacks against some of the largest
commercial websites, including Yahoo!, eBay, CNN,
Amazon.com and Dell, Inc. In 2000, he targeted Yahoo!
through project Rivolta, a term which means “riot” in Italy.
He initially denied the offenses charged against him but
accepted the accusations in 2001.
CHAD DAVIS
An American hacker who operated under the pseudonym
Mindphasr, Chad Davis is among the most notorious
cybercriminals of the 20th century. He founded Global Hell, a
syndicate of computer hackers in the United States, and
authored the hacking of the websites of some of the largest
organizations and corporations in the country. He was the man
behind the vandalism of the homepage of The White House and
the US Army with a message saying “GlobalHell will not die.”
NAHSHON EVEN-CHAIM
Also known as Phoenix, Nahshon Even-Chaim was the first
computer hacker to have ever been convicted in Australia.
His mission was to break into computer systems by dialling
indirectly or placing a call through X.25 networks or internet
connectivity. Among the websites he damaged were those
of the University of California, Berkley, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Hacking computers was his way of ridiculing the entire computer
security community.
RAPHAEL GRAY
At age 19, Raphael Gray was able to hack several computer
Systems around the world in just a matter of one month.
His mission was to gain unauthorized access to credit card
information, which eventually netted him millions of dollars.
Dubbed “The Bill Gates Hacker,” Gray broke into secure computer
systems and published all the credit card information he
accessed as part of his multimillion credit card pound mission.
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