10 Most Notorious Hackers To Ever Get Caught

 10.Ehud Tenenbaum

An Israeli cracker, Ehud Tenenbaum caught the attention of the media at the young age of 19, after he led a group of young hackers that damaged the computer networks of some of the largest institutions in the United States. Young as he was, he was arrested for hacking the computer systems of the US Air Force, NASA, US Navy, The Pentagon, Knesset and MIT. He also hacked into the computers of terrorist groups based in Palestine and destroyed the websites of Islamist organization Hamas.

9.Leonard Rose

Leonard Rose was a hacker convicted in 1991 due to wire fraud. He was known for having stolen Unix source codes from AT&T and distributed two Trojan Horse programs which allowed him to gain illegal access to several computer systems. He was also accused of being the mastermind of the Legion of Doom hacking group, one of the most active hacker groups from 1980’s to 1990’s, and of collecting login information from various websites.

8.Rafael Nunez

Rafael Nunez was a member of the notorious hacking group World of Hell in 2011. As a member of the group, he got involved in several high profile attacks, finding websites with poor security and then defacing them with light-hearted messages. He was part of the Dan Verton book entitled “The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers” in 2002. Today, he is a notorious businessman dwelling in Venezuela.

7.Andrew Auernheimer

More commonly known as “Weev,” Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer was an internet troll who gained media attention because of his inflammatory, off-topic posts in several online communities and forums. An American grey hat hacker, Andrew was known for using several pseudonyms in his operations. He was the one responsible for the disruption of Amazon’s services in 2009 and for hacking the website of The New York Times.

6.Mark Abene

Known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, Mark Abene was a New York-based hacker who used to be a member of some of the most notorious hacker groups in the United States, including the Legion of Doom and the Masters of Deception. He was a high-profile hacker who targeted large corporations and was among the most important figures of the Masters of Deception. Aside from computers, he also explored and hacked several telecommunication systems.

5.Julian Paul Assange

An Australian editor and publicist, Julian Paul Assenge is the founder of WikiLeaks, a site that publishes submissions of secret information from personal web accounts and news leaks. Before he became internationally acclaimed for his founding of WikiLeaks, he was a teenage hacker who published US military documents. At age 16, he joined the International Subversives group and hacked computer systems under his pseudonym, “Mendax.”

4.Mike Calce

Michael Demon Calce, also known as the MafiaBoy of cyberspace, was a high school apprentice at West Island, Quebec when he got involved in a series of publicized denial-of-service attacks against some of the largest commercial websites, including Yahoo!, eBay, CNN, Amazon.com and Dell, Inc. In 2000, he targeted Yahoo! through project Rivolta, a term which means “riot” in Italy. He initially denied the offenses charged against him but accepted the accusations in 2001.

3.Chad Davis

An American hacker who operated under the pseudonym Mindphasr, Chad Davis is among the most notorious cybercriminals of the 20th century. He founded Global Hell, a syndicate of computer hackers in the United States, and authored the hacking of the websites of some of the largest organizations and corporations in the country. He was the man behind the vandalism of the homepage of The White House and the US Army with a message saying “GlobalHell will not die.”

2.Nahshon Even-Chaim

Also known as Phoenix, Nahshon Even-Chaim was the first computer hacker to have ever been convicted in Australia. His mission was to break into computer systems by dialling indirectly or placing a call through X.25 networks or internet connectivity. Among the websites he damaged were those of the University of California, Berkley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Hacking computers was his way of ridiculing the entire computer security community.

1.Raphael Gray

 At age 19, Raphael Gray was able to hack several computer systems around the world in just a matter of one month. His mission was to gain unauthorized access to credit card information, which eventually netted him millions of dollars. Dubbed “The Bill Gates Hacker,” Gray broke into secure computer systems and published all the credit card information he accessed as part of his multimillion credit card pound mission.