Top Hackers In The World - Part II

Adrian Lamo

In 2001, 20-year-old Adrian Lamo utilized an unprotected substance the board apparatus at Yahoo to change a Reuters article and add a phony statement credited to previous Attorney General John Ashcroft. Lamo regularly hacked frameworks and afterward told both the press and his casualties. At times, he'd help tidy up the wreck to improve their security. As Wired brings up, in any case, Lamo took things excessively far in 2002, when he hacked The New York Times' intranet, added himself to the rundown of master sources and started directing exploration on prominent well known individuals. Lamo procured the moniker "The Homeless Hacker" since he liked to meander the roads with minimal in excess of a knapsack and regularly had no fixed location.

Albert Gonzalez

According to the New York Daily News, Gonzalez, dubbed "soupnazi," got his start as the "troubled pack leader of computer nerds" at his Miami high school. He eventually became active on criminal commerce site Shadowcrew.com and was considered one of its best hackers and moderators. At 22, Gonzalez was arrested in New York for debit card fraud related to stealing data from millions of card accounts. To avoid jail time, he became an informant for the Secret Service, ultimately helping indict dozens of Shadowcrew members.

During his time as a paid informant, Gonzalez continued his in criminal activities. Along with a group of accomplices, Gonzalez stole more than 180 million payment card accounts from companies including OfficeMax, Dave and Buster's and Boston Market. The New York Times Magazine notes that Gonzalez's 2005 attack on US retailer TJX was the first serial data breach of credit information. Using a basic SQL injection, this famous hacker and his team created back doors in several corporate networks, stealing an estimated $256 million from TJX alone. During his sentencing in 2015, the federal prosecutor called Gonzalez's human victimization "unparalleled".

Matthew Bevan and Richard Pryce

Matthew Bevan and Richard Pryce are a group of British hacker who hacked into numerous military organizations in 1996, including Griffiss Air Force Base, the Defense Information System Agency and the Korean Atomic Research Institute (KARI). Bevan (Kuji) and Pryce (Datastream Cowboy) have been blamed for almost beginning a third world battle after they unloaded KARI research onto American

military frameworks. Bevan claims he was hoping to demonstrate a UFO paranoid idea, and as per the BBC, his case bears similarity to that of Gary McKinnon. Vindictive goal or not, Bevan and Pryce exhibited that even military organizations are helpless.

More Information…..

• https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/top-ten-greatest-hackers

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/02/10/ranked-the-worlds-20-greatest-hackers/?sh=7fe8dcba10ce

Vinavi Sathsarani