10 Best Hackers The World Has Ever Known





10. Albert Gonzalez

Albert Gonzalez is American computer hacker who was mastermind in biggest credit card theft of all time history. He resell more than 170 million card detail and ATM number. He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. He is scheduled for release December 4, 2025.





9. Astra Hacker





Astra, a pseudonym, stands for a Greek hacker who gained access to French aviation company Dassault group computer, stealing weapons technology data for more than five years. Astra sold information about jet fighters and military Aircrafts to counties during the period spanning the hacks.





8. Anonymous

Anonymous is well know known "Hacker" in world. But still exactly no one is know personally about Anonymous. Anonymous is not a single person instead it is group of people.

Anonymous are known for DDoS cyber attacks against several governments , government institution and government agencies, corporations, and Church of Scientology.





7. Kevin Mitnick





Kevin Mitnick is one of world's most hacker. Now he is the top cyber security speaker. Once he was one of the FBI's Most Wanted because he hacked into 40 major corporations just for the challenge, Kevin is now a trusted security consultant to the Fortune 500 and government worldwide.

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6. Kevin Poulsen





Kevin poulsen hack all telephone lines for Los Angles radio station KIIS-FM so that he will be winner of Porsche 944 S2 in 1990. He arrest 1992 and sentenced to 5 years in a federal penitentiary, as well as banned from using computers or the internet for 3 years after his release. Now he contributing as the editor of The Daily Beast.





5. Jonathan James





The first juvenile to be imprisoned for a cyber-crime at the age of 16, Jonathan James or better known as comrade, hacked into Defense Threat Reduction Agency of US department. Further, he installed a sniffer that scrutinized the messages passed on between the DTRA employees. Not only did he keep a check on the messages being passed around, in the process, he collected the passwords and usernames and other such vital details of the employees, and further even stole essential software. All this cost NASA to shut down its system and to pay from its pocket $41,000. c0mrade, however, had a bitter ending as James committed suicide in 2008.





4. Mathew Bevan and Richard Pryce





Targeting the over-sensitive nerves, what Mathew Bevan along with his alleged partner Richard Pryce did, could have triggered great many issues between USA and North Korea. The duo hacked the US military computers and used it as a means to infiltrate the foreign systems. The crucial contents of Korean Atomic Research Institute were dumped into USAF system. However, the contents were majorly relevant to South Korea and hence, less volatile. But this, nonetheless, could have led to a huge international issue.

3. Adrian Lamo





Adrian Lamo decided to switch careers when he realized the potentials of his skills. He became a news when he hacked into Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, and The New York Times. This, although culminated into his arrest, it later helped him gain the batch of an American Threat Analyst. A guy who would hack into top-notch accounts sitting in the spacious and comforting cafeterias, libraries, internet cafes, soon turned Wikileaks suspect Bradley Manning over to FBI. While Manning was arrested for leaking several hundred sensitive US government documents, Lamo went hiding or should we presume, undercover?

2. LulzSec

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LulzSec or Lulz Security, a high profile, Black Hat hacker group, gained credentials for hacking into Sony, News International, CIA, FBI, Scotland Yard, and several noteworthy accounts. So notorious was the group that when it hacked into News Corporations account, they put across a false report of Rupert Murdoch having passed away. While the group claims to have retired from their vile duties, the motto of the group, “Laughing at your security since 2011!” stays alive. There are assertions of the group having hacked into the websites of the newspapers like The Times and The Sun to post its retirement news. Many, however, claim that this group had taken it upon itself to create awareness about the absence of efficient security against hackers.

1. Gary McKinnon





Gary McKinnon must’ve been a curious, restless child, for to gain information on UFOs, he thought it better to get a direct access into the channels of NASA. He infiltrated 97 US military and NASA computers, by installing virus and deleting a few files. All the efforts to satisfy his curiosity, but, alas, curiosity killed the cat. It was soon found that McKinnon was guilty of having hacked the military and NASA websites from his girlfriend’s aunt’s house in London. While entering and deleting the files from these websites wasn’t enough, McKinnon thought of shaming the security forces by putting out a notice on the website that said, “Your security is crap.” Well, looks like McKinnon was something, if he could shut down the US Military’s Washington Network of about 2000 computers for 24 hours, making the hack, the biggest military computer hack of all time!



