Since the beginning of the computer age, we all know there has been some people or the other that are computer genius.
They are good at writing codes. Some of them write codes for the benefits of humanity and are the good guys.
But,
some write codes in other to destroy, exploit, or gain access to a
particular information. They can literally do anything with codes. These
set of people are called Hackers.
Of
course there are so many hackers in the world. But, there were some of
them that were considered the most dangerous of them all.
I compiled a list of:
5 most dangerous hackers of all time
1 Kevin Mitnick Alias:“The
Condor”
Kevin Mitnick is known has the king of all hackers with
aliases like “The Condor”. In the late 1970’s he began taking advantage of the
system by tricking the Los Angeles bus system to give free ride as he aged
Mitnick found his gift for code and began hacking into big name companies like
Nokia, Motorola, IBM and eventually the Pentagon.
Millions of dollars
of information passed through his hands, before he was finally arrested in 1995.
Hardly detained Mitnick went on the run from the FBI for 3 years and was the
most wanted computer criminal of his time before he was sentenced to 4 more
years in jail.
Mitnick didn’t consider what he was doing as hacking and
referred to it politely as social engineering at one point the judge found him
so threatening that he placed him in solitary confinement because he felt Mitnick
could start a nuclear war by whistling codes into a pay phone
2 Matthew Bevan &
Richard Price Aliases: “Kuji” & “Datastream Cowboy”
The dangerous British hacking duo of Matthew Bevan and
Richard Price took the world for a potentially deadly ride for several weeks in
their youth back in 1994. They began by attacking the pentagon’s network for
several weeks and progressed further by stealing battlefield simulations.
As if that wasn’t
enough, they started intercepting messages from US agents stationed in North
Korea and accessed sensitive materials from a Korean nuclear facility, this was
all incredibly alarming to the US, because at the time Price and Bevan were
using US systems to infiltrate information from Korean systems which simply put
nearly sparked an international incident.
3 Anonymous
Hacktivist Group
You’ve probably heard about the infamous Hacktivist group
“Anonymous”, sprouting back in 2003 from the breathing grounds of 4chan.org.
Anonymous consist of an unspecified number of politically
active hackers. They campaign for internet freedom, social justice and
transparency in the law with nothing off limits.
This group has hit the Chinese government, the Vatican, the FBI
and CIA, while spending just as much time leaking documents or taking down
websites with political intent.
While they may not be monetarily motivated, the information
they’ve leaked and the impact they’ve had on cases and cover-ups has been huge.
4 Unknown Name Alias:
“Astra”
Little is known about Astra which is the Alias of the notorious
hacker who spent half a decade in the mid 2000’s stealing high profile
technology data and software.
Astra will quickly sell this information to people and
organizations across Brazil, South Africa, the Middle East and the rest of the
World. While no one knows how much money he was able to make or where it went
but damages he caused where estimated between $250 million and $361 million.
Strangely even after all the distraction caused, Astra was
never publicly identified, even when Greek authorities arrested and detained
this threatening hacker in 2008.
Speculations and rumours say that he is a 58 year old Greek
mathematician and is serving 6 years in jail, somewhere.
5 Gary Mckinnon
Alias: “solo”
Gary Mckinnon infiltrated over 97 US military and NASA
servers in just a year during 2001. He deleted sensitive data, software and
files that caused the US government $ 700,000 dollars in recovery charges due
to the severity of the damage.
Confident in his skills Mckinnon taunted the military by
posting your security system is crap I am Solo, I will continue to disrupt at
the highest levels.
Strangely enough Mckinnon wasn’t in it for any kind on
monetary gain and it turns out he was just looking for files containing
evidence of extraterrestrial live which according to Mckinnon he found.
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