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Gary McKinnon (born February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused by a US prosecutor in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time". [1] McKinnon said that he was looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to ...
Gonzalez bought his first computer when he was 12, and by the time he was 14 managed to hack into NASA. [7] He attended South Miami High School in Miami, Florida, where he was described as the "troubled" pack leader of computer nerds. [8] In 2000, he moved to New York City, where he lived for three months before moving to Kearny, New Jersey. [9]
Jonathan Joseph James (December 12, 1983 – May 18, 2008) was an American hacker (a gray hat ethical hacker) who was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. [1] The South Florida native was 15 years old at the time of the first offense and 16 years old on the date of his sentencing.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was one of TinKode's most high-profile targets. The Royal Navy's website was temporarily unavailable after TinKode claimed to have hacked it. [4] He has also breached the security of servers at NASA, [5] posting screenshots from an FTP server within NASA's Earth Observation System at Goddard Space Flight Center.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. American hacker (1963–2023) Kevin Mitnick Mitnick in 2010 Born Kevin David Mitnick (1963-08-06) August 6, 1963 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Died July 16, 2023 (2023-07-16) (aged 59) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Other names The Condor, The Darkside Hacker Occupations Information ...
O'Brien has stated that when he was thirteen years old (c. 1988), he hacked into NASA under the pseudonym "Scorpion". [9] In an interview with Silicon Republic, an Irish technology news website, O'Brien claimed that the NSA, through Interpol, appeared at his home following the hack. [10]
He became famous in 1998 when he was arrested for hacking computers belonging to NASA, The Pentagon, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the Knesset, MIT, among other high-profile organizations. He also hacked into the computers of Palestinian groups and claimed to have destroyed the website of Hamas. [1]
February 8: Foxconn is hacked by a hacker group, "Swagg Security", releasing a massive amount of data including email and server logins, and even more alarming—bank account credentials of large companies like Apple and Microsoft. Swagg Security stages the attack just as a Foxconn protest ignites against terrible working conditions in southern ...