So, today we have created a list of legendary cyber criminals or so-called black hats of all time.
Meet the 20 most dangerous hackers of all time.
and Microsoft, until he was arrested in 2003.
He was known as the homeless hacker who used cafes and libraries as a base.
Today Lamo is known as Finger-hard in the hacker community.
Ancheta was arrested in 2005 when an FBI agent pretended to be interested in their services.
The hacker returned about $60,000 earned in raids and served 60 months in prison.
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Owen Walker AKILL
In 2008, Owen Walker admitted to being guilty of six cyber crime charges.
He led a web link of hackers who broke into 1.3 million computers and stole 20 million current accounts.
Robberies have started when Walker was 17 years old.
He currently specializes in security technology companies.
Kevin Poulsen Dark Dante
Kevin Poulsen was the first American banned from the internet, after leaving prison.
In the early 1990s, Poulsen invaded phone lines.
When he was arrested, Poulsen served five years in prison.
Albert Gonzalez CumbaJohnny
Albert Gonzalez founded the Shadowcrew.com, site that came to gather 4000 people.
About 170 million credit and debit cards have been sold on the site between 2005 and 2007.
He was arrested in 2008 and was detained in jail until 2025.
Kevin Mitnick The Condor
Mitnick said that he was not a hacker but a social engineer.
He started hacking at the age of 15, when he invaded the Nokia, IBM, and Motorola.
After serving a year in prison, he continued to break into computers.
Currently, he is a security consultant and author of two books on the subject.
I do not believe in the justice system, wrote the farewell note.
Vladimir Levin
Levin transferred 10.7 million dollars to his own account from various worldwide Citibank accounts.
Only $400,000 were recovered when Levin was arrested in 1998.
Currently, no one knows the whereabouts of the hacker.
Gary McKinnon Solo
Gary McKinnon broke into 100 servers from NASA and the US Army between 2001 and 2002.
To commit crimes, he used the computers of aunts house to his girlfriend in London.
Then the US President Bill Clinton created a cyber security team to hunt Mafiaboy.
In 2001, Calce was sentenced to eight years of house arrest.
Does it look like a lenient sentence?
Remember: he was only 15 at the time of the crime.
Price (pictured) was 16 and Bevan, 21.
Both were arrested on the following year.
Lizard Squad
Famous among gamers, the Lizard Squad down the nets PlayStation and Xbox in Christmas 2014.
The group was also behind attacks on networks of League of Legends and Destiny.
The DoS attack used in these attacks is sold on the groups website as a service.
The Lizard Squad is also known to take responsibility for attacks on non-existent Tinder, Facebook and Instagram.
Nahshon Even-Chaim targets defense and nuclear weapons research networks.
Australian police managed to find him using undercover connection and informants and was arrested.
#17 Chad Davis
Chad Davis was an American hacker from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
He was the most wanted list of Cyber Criminals in the late 20th century.
He was also the part of hackers group GlobalHell.
The Hackers groups biggest achievement ever was destroying the homepage of White House website.
Well, Chad Davis once took down the U.S Militarys homepage with a message globalHell will not die.
He was identified and was arrested.
He was charged six months in prison, with a fine and forbade him from using a computer.
#18 George Hotz
He is an American Hacker who is known for unlocking several branded phones.
Like he had unlocked iPhone so that it could be used with other wireless carriers.
He was also a part of a Hacking group known as fail0verflow.
Sony sued George Hotz for hacking PlayStation 3.
Sony had settled everything with George Hotz in the court.
#20 Robert Tappan Morris
Robert Tappan Morris created a computer virus in November 1988.
The virus infected around 6000 major Unix machines, making them unusable and caused millions of dollars in damage.
Robert Tappan Morris is also the first person to be convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris now works in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
So, these are the 20 most dangerous black hat hackers of all time.
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