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Added on: 29th Sep 2015

 

RAFAEL NUNEZ

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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