Top 5 most famous hackers of all time

  

 

1  Jonathan James: james gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at the age of 16. In an anonymous PBS interview, he professes. “I was just looking around, playing around. What was fun for me was a challenge to see what I could pull off.” James also cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million.

2   Adrian Lamo: lamo’s claim to fame is his break-ins at major organizations like the New York Times and Microsoft. Duded the “homeless hacker,” he used internet connections at kinko’s, coffe shops and libraries to make his intrusions. In a profile article, “he hacks by day, squats by night,” lamo reflects, “I have a laptop in Pittsburgh, a change of clothes in D.C. it kind of redefines the term multi-jurisdictional.”

3    Kevin Mitnick: a self-proclaimed “hacker poster boy,” mitnick went through a highly publicized pursuit by authorities. His mischief was hyped by the media but his actual offenses may be less notable than his notoriety suggests. The deparment of justice describes him as “the most wanted computer criminal in united states history. “His exploits were detailed in two movies: freedom downtime and takedown.

4    Kevin Poulsen: also known as dark dante, he gained recognition for his hack of LA radio’s KIIS_FM phone lines, which earned him a brand new Porsche, among other items. His hacking specialty, however, revolved around telephones.

5    Robert Tappan morris: morris, son of former National Security Agency scientist Robert Morris, is Known as the creator of the Morris Worm, the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet. As a result of his crime, he was the first person prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.