The most famous hackers in history
The top 3 according to 94 votes from people: Anonymous · Gary McKinnon · Adrian Lamo. (Updated Mar 26, 2023.)
From "the Condor" Kevin Mitnick to the teenager who took down Yahoo and Amazon, by way of Anonymous: the hackers whose attacks made headlines around the world. Who was the boldest?
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Top 12
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1
Anonymous
The Guy Fawkes-masked collective born on 4chan.
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2
Gary McKinnon
He broke into NASA and US military systems looking for UFOs.
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3
Adrian Lamo
The "homeless hacker" who got into the networks of big companies.
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4
Albert González
He stole the details of more than 180 million payment cards.
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5
Kevin Mitnick
"The Condor", once America's most wanted computer criminal, later a security consultant.
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6
Jonathan James
At 15 he got into Department of Defense systems.
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7
Matthew Bevan and Richard Pryce
Two Britons who broke into US military networks in 1996.
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8
Michael Calce (Mafiaboy)
At 15 he took down Yahoo, eBay, CNN and Amazon in 2000.
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9
ASTRA
A Greek mathematician who stole weapons software from Dassault for years.
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10
Jeanson James Ancheta
He built a network of 400,000 infected computers and rented it out.
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11
Kevin Poulsen
"Dark Dante", later a Wired journalist.
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12
Robert Tappan Morris
The author of the 1988 Morris worm, the first to spread across the internet.
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Comments (1)
Lo de McKinnon buscando ovnis en los ordenadores de la NASA es de película, no me lo creía