In 1982, Kevin hacked the North American Defense Command (NORAD) which was the inspiration for the movie War Games.
Known by the moniker “The Homeless Hacker”, Adrian Lamo used an unprotected content management tool to tweak a Reuters article at Yahoo.
Albert Gonzalez was considered one of the best hackers and moderators on the criminal commerce site Shadowcrew.com
He used a series of large-scale “botnets” to compromise over 400,000 computers in 2005 and was the first hacker to be jailed for using botnet technology.
Calce brought down eBay, Dell, Amazon and CNN using a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack and caused their websites to crash.
At the age of 17, Kevin used the alias Dark Dante to hack into ARPANET, the Pentagon’s computer network.
Inspired by The Cuckoo’s Egg, at just 15, Jonathan James hacked into the computers of the United States Department of Defense.
While ASTRA has never been publicly identified, he is believed to be a 58-year-old Greek mathematician who hacked into the Dassault Group.
In 2011, Aaron Swartz hacked into MIT’s network to download a huge cache of JSTOR academic data.
In 2002, Gary hacked into military computers to look for information regarding UFOs and other technologies for the public good.