![]() Anonymous are a leaderless hacktivist group and possibly the most famous hacker collective that has ever existed.ĤChan kicked off Project Chanology when the Church of Scientology attempted to remove the material from an interview with Tom Cruise, a prominent member of the church, from the Internet. If you haven’t been there before and you want to check it out, caution is required: It’s not for the faint hearted.ĤChan is the birthing ground for a great deal of Internet memes and initiatives, but the greatest achievement of the 4Chan boards is the creation of the infamous hacking group Anonymous. For those that don’t know, 4Chan is an uncensored and anonymous messaging board. Like many things on the Internet, it started on 4Chan. What happens when you cross the most infamous hacking collective in the world with the weirdest religion on the planet? 3 – Anonymous Creates Project Chanology to Attack the Church of Scientology Remember to protect yourself before you start doing things with strange and public Wi-Fi connections. And now he’s serving twenty years in a federal prison.īut there are more people like Gonzalez out there, people who have the desire and the skill to hack into your digital life. It’s pretty embarrassing to get stung for something as silly as not changing the password on your Wi-Fi.įortunately, in August 2009, Gonzalez was indicted in Newark, New Jersey. It’s not known for certain just how many companies Gonzalez hit, or how much he stung them for, as many refused to publish any details about it. ![]() And that’s just one of the many companies involved. One of his targets, Heartland, reported that it lost $12.6 million in one of Gonzalez’s attacks. We recently warned of the perils of an insecure Wi-Fi setup, and Gonzalez’s scam is one of the reasons why.Īrmed with just a laptop, Gonzalez would drive up and down the US Route 1 looking for vulnerabilities in public wireless networks. That’s not a typo, and to put it into context - it’s half the population of the US. 2 – Albert Gonzalez Stole All The Credit Cardsīetween 20, Albert Gonzalez managed to harvest and resell 170 million credit card numbers. he also co-invented Securedrop – a platform for secure communication between journalists and their sources. Kevin learned his lesson and is now an editor at Wired. Poulsen that he ended up appearing on the TV show ‘ Unsolved Mysteries’.Įxcept, when they featured Kevin’s story, the show’s freephone numbers (where people would call to give information on the featured crimes) mysteriously crashed. Kevin was a wanted man, and the FBI wanted their man, so the FBI started a manhunt. Then he drove off laughing into the sunset. What’s the best was to ensure you’re the 102nd caller? That’s right! Take over the entire radio station’s phone network. His most famous hack started when KIIS-FM, an LA-based radio station, decided to give away a Porsche 944 S2 to the 102nd caller of a phone-in competition. A ban which ran for three years after his sentence had expired. So serious a threat was he, and so considerable his skills, that he is notorious for being the first American released from prison with a court sentence that banned him from using computers and the Internet. So much so that he even taught himself how to pick locks - a skill that may have come in useful after he was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison.ĭark Dante was a notorious hacker, and the FBI was on his case for some time before he was finally apprehended. ![]() ![]() Back in the day, Lee Poulsen called himself Dark Dante, and he aspired to be a ‘complete’ hacker. Kevin didn’t commit the biggest hacks, but he’s certainly one of the biggest hackers around. 1 – Kevin Lee Poulsen Takes Over the Phone Lines Here are five of the biggest hacks of all time, and one that hasn’t happened yet. What makes a person or group want to hack into something? Revenge? Personal gain? Political motivation? We’ve got all those covered. Some nefarious types may even do something for evil, or simply to watch the world burn. There are those amongst us who do things for good, while others will do it just for the lulz. You can never know how or why some people might decide to do something. And everyone can see everything you do, all of the time. This article was originally published on February 19, 2016. ![]()
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