Computer hacking is the act of identifying and exploiting system and network vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to those systems. Today we will discuss about Top 5 Hackers in America of All Time.
Top 5 Hackers in America of All Time
Top 5 Hackers in America of All Time
1: Kevin Mitnick.
Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. He is best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications related crimes.
He now runs the security firm Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC. He is also the chief hacking officer and partial owner of KnowBe4, a security awareness training company, as well as an active advisory board member at Zimperium, which develops a mobile intrusion prevention system.
2: Albert Gonzalez.
Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker, computer criminal, and police informant, who is accused of the combined credit card theft and subsequent resale of over 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the largest such transaction ever.
Major fraud history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL injection to deploy backdoors on several corporate systems to launch packet sniffing attacks, which allowed them to steal computer data.
3: Jonathan James.
Jonathan Joseph James (December 12, 1983 – May 18, 2008) was an American hacker. Who was the first juvenile jailed for cybercrime in the United States.
The South Florida native was 15 at the time of the first offense and 16 at the time of his sentencing. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Pinecrest, Florida home on May 18, 2008.
4: Anonymous.
Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations, and the Church of Scientology.
Unknown originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of multiple online and offline communities of users existing together as a “chaotic”, digitized “global brain” or “hivemind”. Anonymous members can sometimes be distinguished in public by wearing Guy Fawkes masks in the style featured in the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta. Some anons also choose to disguise their voices through voice changers or text-to-speech programs.
5: ASTRA.
The hacker, codenamed Astra, was a 58-year-old Greek mathematician at the time of his arrest in 2008 in an apartment in Athens, Greece, and his true identity was not revealed to the public/news media until December 28, 2018.