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In the infancy of the hacker subculture and the computer underground, [3] criminal convictions were rare because there was an informal code of ethics that was followed by white hat hackers. [4] Proponents of hacking claim to be motivated by artistic and political ends, but are often unconcerned about the use of criminal means to achieve them. [ 5 ]
Noname057(16) a Russian speaking hacker group, attacks aligned with Russia's invasion in Ukraine; OurMine, a hacker group of unknown origin that has compromised various websites and Twitter accounts as a way of advertising their "professional services". P.H.I.R.M., an early hacking group that was founded in the early 1980s.
Here is a list of notable hackers who are known for their hacking acts. 0–9. A ...
AOHell was the first of what would become thousands of programs designed for hackers created for use with AOL. In 1994, seventeen year old hacker Koceilah Rekouche, from Pittsburgh, PA, known online as "Da Chronic", [1] [2] used Visual Basic to create a toolkit that provided a new DLL for the AOL client, a credit card number generator, email bomber, IM bomber, and a basic set of instructions. [3]
This is a list of fictional hackers in comics, films, video games, and other media. Hollywood films of the 1980s and 1990s typically portrayed hackers as "unintentional criminals" who end up becoming heroes, even as they were hunted by law enforcement.
In May 2011, the small group of Anons behind the HBGary Federal hack—including Tflow, Topiary, Sabu, and Kayla—formed the hacker group "Lulz Security", commonly abbreviated "LulzSec". The group's first attack was against Fox.com, leaking several passwords, LinkedIn profiles, and the names of 73,000 X Factor contestants.
Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, [4] [5] an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers.
Mustafa Al-Bassam (born January 1995) is an Iraqi- British computer security researcher, hacker, and co-founder of Celestia Labs. [1] Al-Bassam co-founded the hacker group LulzSec in 2011, which was responsible for several high profile breaches.