On November 2, 1988, Morris released a “worm” that took down 10 per cent of the internet, crippling 6000 computer systems. Caught and convicted in Montreal’s youth court, he was sentenced to eight months in an open custody programme with one year of probation and restricted internet use. In February of 2000, Calce launched attacks against large commercial websites including Yahoo, Amazon, Dell, eBay and CNN. Remember her? Although Smith claims that the virus was never meant to do harm, it overloaded systems and servers around the world. We owe our thanks to Smith for creating and distributing the infamous “Melissa” virus. This gentleman used everything from libraries to coffee shops to avoid getting caught.īreaking into high-profile networks such as The New York Times, Microsoft, Yahoo and MCI Worldcom was his claim to fame. Hotz will forever be connected with the April 2011 PlayStation breach.īeing one of the first hackers to ever “jailbreak” the PlayStation 3 – breaking through parameters and limitations of the machine established by the manufacturer – was bad enough.īut releasing his breaking methods to the general public just made his world a total mess. He also hacked into the Defence Threat Reduction Agency and intercepted more than 3000 internal messages while collecting usernames and passwords.
With an amazing talent for hacking, he successfully broke into high security systems such as Nasa and the department of defence aged just 15 and stole more than £1.1million of software.
Jonathan JamesĪt 16, James was the first juvenile imprisoned in the USA for cyber crime. When all was investigated, Gary faced charges for illegally accessing 97 US government computers causing a total of over £500,000 in damage. The systems involved were army, navy, air force and Nasa. McKinnon has been accused of executing the largest hack of US government computer networks in history.
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