Who are the best hackers in the world? What they did hack?
Who are the best hackers in the world? What they did hack?
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According to the business insider,
- Guccifer, who also goes by Marcel Lehel Lazar, is best known for exposing the existence of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.He’s hacked several American political figures and was the first to distribute photos of former president George Bush’s paintings. He also reportedly was able to hack into former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s email and Facebook accounts.
- Ryan Collins of Pennslyvania pled guilty on Wednesday to orchestrating the celebrity iCloud hack known in the seedier parts of the internet as “the Fappening” or “Celebgate.”
- Adrian Lamo was known as the “homeless hacker” for his transient lifestyle. Despite that, he was able to hack into the internal computers of The New York Times in 2002. This hack gave Lamo access to private databases, including one that had the private information of more than 3,000 people who had contributed to the paper’s Op-Ed section. He was sentenced to two years of probation and fined nearly $65,000. Most recently, Lamo was back in the headlines for turning in Chelsea Manning for leaking classified US Army documents.
- Vladimir Levin was a Russian hacker who, in 1995, broke into Citibank’s computers and allegedly stole nearly $10 million by re-wiring it to various global accounts.
- Albert Gonzalez executed one of the largest-known identity thefts the world has ever seen. In 2010 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison after confessing to stealing millions of personal credit and debit cards accounts. He was accused of stealing as many as 170 million credit card numbers, the Associated Press reported.
- Gary McKinnon was a Scottish computer hacker who was able to gain access to 97 American military networks between 2001 and 2002. He reportedly left the military a message on its website too: “Your security is crap.”