Most powerful hackers in the world
The person who gain unauthorized access in the system is called hacker. There are many types of hackers exist but this post covers most dangerous hackers in the world1. Kevin Mitnick
kevin Mitnick is known as top 1 hacker in the world
Kevin was born on August 6 1963 in Van Nuys California. Now is an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. Now he leave bad works from hacking now he publish books teach how we systems can hacked.
What did he do?
first he gained unauthorized access to a computer network in 1979 at the age of 16. In 1995 he was arrested for stealing computer code from many high tech companies like Motorola and nokia. Due to this types of many hacking attacks he have to spend five years in a jail. According to Wikipedia In 1999, Mitnick pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of illegally intercepting a wire communication, as part of a plea agreement before the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. He was sentenced to 46 months in prison plus 22 months for violating the terms of his 1989 supervised release sentence for computer fraud. He admitted to violating the terms of supervised release by hacking into Pacific Bell voicemail and other systems and to associating with known computer hackers, in this case co-defendant Lewis De Payne. Now he is paid security consultant, public speaker, and author.
2. Jonathan James
He is also known as the teenager who hacked NASA for fun
Jonathan was born on December 12 1983 and died in May 18 2008. He is a gray hat hacker who have not any purpose to harm straight forward any organization. He is interested in computers at the age of 6 when he start using computer with his father.
What did he do?
He hacked into the network of educational institution in Miami-Dude country and correct his scores due to this he never fails in his exams. His interest in the computer increase gradually. He once hacked NASA too. Later he got arrested and after some time he also got bell. The event (when he go to jail treated as a criminal) cause depression. Then after he often found in anxious state. Jonathan was found dead in bathroom of his home with a self-inflicted gunshot. He wrote "I do not believe in justice system" in his death note,
3.Michael Calce
He is also known as the name of MafiaBoy.
Michael Calce is a security expert and former computer hacker from Île Bizard . Calce was born in the West Island area of Montreal, Quebec in 1984.
What did he do?
Michael (mafia boy) paralyzed the websites of e-commerce, and media giants including eBay, Amazon, CNN, Dell, and Yahoo with a series of denial-of-service attacks (DDoS).
4. Jeanson James Ancheta
the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers
He worked at an Internet cafe and according to his family wanted to join the military reserve
He was born on April 26, 1985.He worked at an Internet cafe and according to his family wanted to join the military reserve.
what did he do?
This hacker got arrested for five years. Ancheta violated the prohibited acts of accessing and transmitting malware with the intent and consequence of disrupting interstate and foreign commerce
5.Gary Mckinnon
He is a government computer hacker
Mckinnon is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker. He was born in 10 February 1966
What did he do?
McKinnon was accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers over a 13-month period between February 2001 and March 2002, at the house of his girlfriend's aunt in London, using the name 'Solo'. McKinnon was first interviewed by police on 19 March 2002. After this interview, his computer was seized by the authorities