There are Famous hackers They have excelled by their knowledge, skills and what they are able to get by working for themselves.
The word hacker is English and comes from the verb to hack, which means to cut. Then, we have that hacker is a"cutter". This tells us rather little and does not serve, in this case, the etymology of the term to give us a precise idea.
A computer hacker is not just a network hacker. A hacker is, above all, a curious person who, through his knowledge in computer science, whether or not he is a professional programmer, manages to access through his computer to sites or websites protected and difficult or impossible to access for the rest of The mortals.
Therefore, we could say that hackers are computer experts who use their advanced knowledge for their own benefit, working for others (sometimes) or to put them altruistically at the service of society, claiming that information should not be hidden and That we all have a right to know what they have discovered through their buccaneer searches.
A hacker can enter with relative ease in the bank accounts of thousands of people and access to very juicy information that can interest to numerous companies.
At the end of 2016, hackers have come to the forefront of the world for being the ones who have brought to the public thousands of emails from the presidential candidate of the most powerful country in the world: Hillary Clinton.
They are accused of working in the service of Vladimir Putin to destabilize the American elections. To this point, the importance of information control has come to this day. Hence, the hacker is actually a person who can be used for good or evil, depending on the use made, and who carries it out, of such secret information.
Top 20 most influential hackers
1- Rafael Gray
This boy became a billionaire by accessing the computer systems of computers around the world, getting the credit card numbers of a lot of people. He was nicknamed"The Hacker Bill Gates". In other words, for many it has been the undisputed number one.
2- Chad Davis
His war name was Mindphasr. He is one of the most famous cyber criminals of the 20th century. He was the creator of"Global Hell,"a kind of hacking syndicate that operated in the United States and brought down the mainstream American bitterness.
He was responsible for all the vandalism suffered by the official White House website. The attacks ended with the famous legend:"Global Hell will never die".
3- Julian Paul Assange
He is the creator of the well-known WikiLeaks, a page that is dedicated to airing a lot of secret information of governments, military, conspiracies, emails of influential personages, etc.
As a teenager, he was able to access and publish"top secret"documents of the United States Army. At the age of 16 he was already leading an international group of hackers and hacking computers under the pseudonym Mendax.
4- Andrew Auernheimer
The way to hack this guy is also interesting. It is an internet troll, better known by its pseudonym:"Weev".
He engages in writing, in forums and internet communities, inflammatory and provocative opinions, using a multitude of pseudonyms at the same time. He managed to disrupt the Amazon page and was responsible for hacking the page of the New York Times.
5 Rafael Núñez
Member of the famous group of hackers"World of Hell", carried out selective attacks and of high profile against pages that suffered of bad security. Núñez appears in the book of Dan Verton (2002) titled"The newspapers of the hackers: Confessions of adolescent hackers". He is now a well-known Venezuelan businessman.
6- Kristina Svechinskaya Vladimirovna
There are also ladies in hacking. This young Russian hacker was able to enter through a Trojan (malicious software that introduces itself to the user as a legitimate program but, once it opens, provides all the information to the attacker) in the largest US and British banks. The damsel managed to defraud through Trojans about three billion dollars in total.
7- Karl Koch
A James Bond of hackerism. This German became famous in the 80's, when the Soviet Union still existed and the Cold War was at its peak.
He sold hacked information from the US Army computers to the Soviet KGB. He was one of the few hackers to actively participate in spying on the famous Cold War.
8- Gary McKinnon
This Scotsman, systems administrator, was arrested for hacking no less than 97 American military bases. It was also easily introduced to NASA computers.
His greatest feat came in 2002, when, in the incredible 24-hour period, he hacked into and hacked into 2000 US Army computer systems and stole secret files and weapons systems. This massive attack caused that much of the network of the army was disabled for several days.
9- Adrian Lamo
Hacked the pages of the New York Times, Yahoo and Microsoft. Following this success, he was commissioned to strengthen the computer security of numerous pages of well-known companies. Many hackers end up working to prevent other hackers from doing what they did. The whiting that bites its tail.
10- Robert Tappan Morris
Computer engineer who in 1988 invented the"worm"or computer worm. This worm is a kind of virus but, unlike it, spreads without the help of a person, by itself.
Tappan was the first person to be arrested for violating the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he was sentenced to three years in prison by US courts.
Kevin Poulsen
Hacker for a Porsche 944! This man, the news editor on Wired.com, hacked all the city lines of Los Angeles to make sure his call would be the one hundred and two on a list of calls to a radio station.
That number gave right to take the big prize: a Porsche 944 S2. After leaving prison, he left the world of programming and became a journalist to get away from the criminal activities of his past as a hacker.
12- Albert González
Known for being the organizing mind of a massive credit card scam, Albert managed to deflect his $ 170 million account. That fraud was considered one of the majors of the history of the United States.
He used SQL (Structured Query Language) to steal system data, with card numbers and headline names, and launched massive ARP attacks that sowed the fake message zone Throughout the system.
13- George Hotz
A student at the John Hopkins Center for Talented Young Programmers, George rose to fame for his iPhone hacking, which allowed it to be used by other terminals without being connected to any network. You could also skip the limitations of the iPad, iPad touch and Apple TV. He was also sued by Sony for pirating his famous Play Station 3.
14- Kevin Mitnick, the precocious
Computer security consultant, Mitnick is one of the best-known hackers of the 20th century. He participated in several computer crime against security in communications and became one of the most wanted computer criminals by the American authorities.
At the age of twelve, he made his mark by modifying the Los Angeles city bus card in his favor. On the internet circulate photos of him with a shirt that reads the legend:"I am not a hacker but a security professional."
15- Astra
His real name was never known. It seems that he was a mathematician of 58 years. He entered the database of the supersonic fighter aircraft builder and stole all data from the Dassault Group's new weapons for those and other warplanes.
The information interested people from all over the world. There were about 250 buyers from all over the globe: the Middle East, Brazil, South Africa, France, Germany, Italy, etc. The price of each document amounted to one thousand dollars. On the other hand, the damage that this supposed to the company Dassault Group exceeds 360 million dollars.
16- Jonathan James
His pseudonym was com0rade. He died at age 24. At fifteen, he began his hacking career, dropping the Bell South system, Miami-Dade, NASA, and the United States Department of Defense database.
James stole more than a million and a half dollars. He was sentenced to 6 months of house arrest and the judge also required him to write a letter of apology to both NASA and the US Department of Defense.
In addition, in 2007, after the great scam of the group of Albert González, the police made a registry in house of James. He said he had nothing to do with it. He panicked to be locked up relating to these crimes of theft on the cards and, in 2008, he killed himself by throwing himself in the shower.
He wrote a farewell letter in which he said that he did not believe in the justice system and that his letter might reflect many. The letter ended by saying that he had lost control of the situation and that was the only way to recover it.
17- Vladimir Levin
Its story is similar to the plot of the movie of spies"Casino Royal", of James Bond. Next to his band, in his flat of Saint Petersburg (Russia), Levin robbed of accounts, around the world, of the bank Citybank, the amount of 10.7 million dollars. But the operation did not carry out on the internet. He did it through wiretaps.
He managed to intercept many customer conversations with the bank and thus managed to know all the necessary data. In 1998, the judge ruled that Levin was to return to the bank the sum of two hundred and forty thousand dollars. He was behind bars three years. Since then, nothing has been heard from him.
18- Mathew Bivan and Richard Price
This British couple had the US government in check during the year 1994. They were able to access and attack the Pentagon system. They mimicked how to communicate with American agents and leaked restricted security information to Korean agents.
At that time they were 21 and 16 respectively. The Americans, at first, could not know which country had received the information, whether North Korea or South Korea. If it had been North Korea, the risk of a world war was real. Fortunately for the world, the falsified reports came to the hands of the South Korean intelligence service. A year later, the hacker duo was detected and arrested.
19- Chen Ing Hou
This Taiwanese Chinese created a virus that gave the name of its initials: CIH. Although he later regretted and apologized to the world for creating this dangerous virus, he said he did it to discredit all the companies that manufactured antivirus for computers, calling them"botched".
I wanted to give you a lesson, in your own words. This virus was later known as Chernobyl virus, alluding to the Ukrainian nuclear plant that suffered that tragic accident in 1986.
The virus was much more dangerous just on April 26, the date of the Chernobyl accident. Then it was discovered that, in fact, that date was the birthday of friend Chen Ing.
20- Ehud Tenenbaum
A Jewish hacker who rose to fame at age 19 for leading a group of hackers who managed to damage the communication systems of the largest American companies. He hacked the computer systems of the United States Air Force, NASA, the American Navy, the Pentagon, Knesset and MIT.
He also hacked the computers of terrorist groups based in Palestine and destroyed the pages of the Hamas organization.