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Top 10 Hackers in the World

1-LULZ Security


 Top 10 Hackers in the World

LULZ Security, commonly known as LULZSEC comes on number one in the list of top hackers in the world. LULZSEC is basically a black hat computer hacking group and this gang is Notorious for its illegal activities. LULZSEC is considered the responsible of many high profile attacks and from this hacking they did not want to get any financial profit but they did everything just for the lulz. On 18 July 2011, it hacked the News Corporation and spread the false news of Rupert Murdoch.

2-KEVIN POULSEN


 Top 10 Hackers in the World

KEVIN POULSEN, born on 30 November 1965 is a former black hat hacker of America but now he is working as digital security journalist. Kevin Poulsen's most infamous attack is that he hacked all the Telephone lines of KIS-FM which is a Los Angeles radio station. For this hacking he has given very interesting reason that he wanted to win the prize announced by a radio show. After this incident and many other hackings, FBI started chasing him and after all Kevin was arrested and sentenced to 5 years.

3-ADRIAN LAMO


 Top 10 Hackers in the World


ADRIAN LAMO, born on 20 February 1981, is considered the third most notorious hacker of the world. He is also known as "homeless hacker" because he likes to sit in public places such as; libraries, parks and cafeterias for doing his illegal actions. Media first noticed him when he has successfully entered into many high-profile computer networks like, Microsoft, The New York Times and Yahoo! and for this hacking he was captured in 2003. Now Adrian Lamo is considered a Colombian-American threat analyst.

4-ANONYMOUS


 Top 10 Hackers in the World


ANONYMOUS, a group of great hackers, comes on number four in the list of most infamous hackers of the world. Anonymous is the only group of hackers that have a great number of fans, don't know why, but this group looks somewhat interesting. This group says about its members 'an internet gathering', that's why it is considered an international network of hacktivist and activist. This group is notorious for a series of hacking attacks on government, corporate sites and even religious sites.

5-MATTHEW BEVAN AND RICHARD PRYCE


 Top 10 Hackers in the World


MATTHEW BEVAN AND RICHARD PRYCE, commonly known as "Kuji and Datastream Cowboy" are included among the most notorious black hat hackers of the world. They commit really blunders because of their actions the matters between North Korea and America could have gone more serious. Kuji has hacked very sensitive systems like USAF, NATO and NASA establishments, on the other hand, his friend Datastream Cowboy has hacked a research system of Korea and show the contents of this system on the USAF system.

6-KEVIN MITNICK


 Top 10 Hackers in the World


KEVIN MITNICK, also known as "The Darkside Hacker", born on 6 August 1963, is also included in the list of most notorious black hat hackers of the world. He is one and only among the hackers who has sentenced for prison two times because of his illegal activities. Kevin Mitnick is currently running a security firm that named "Mitnick Security Consulting. Kevin was arrested because of his hacking great networks like Nokia, and surprisingly, he considers his deeds legal and just a part of social engineering.

7-VLADIMIR LEVIN


 Top 10 Hackers in the World


Vladimir Leonidovitch Levin comes on number seven among the most infamous black hat hackers of the world. He is basically a Jewish of Russia and he got fame by his involvement in an illegal act of transferring $10.7 million from the computers of Citibank. He was succeeded in sending dollars to his several accounts which are not only in Europe but also in Israel and United States. All of his partners who were involved in this act, captured but Vladimir was captured in 1997 and he was sentenced to three years on February 1998.

8-JONATHAN JAMES


 Top 10 Hackers in the World


Jonathan Joseph James, born on 12 December 1983, was also included in the list of most notorious black hat hackers of the world. He was the native of South Florida and an American hacker. From August to October 1999 Jonathan James made a lot of illegal entries into several systems, when he was only fifteen years old he hacked the Miami-Dade school network and Bellsouth and finally he attempted to damage the NASA systems. At the age of sixteen, he was sentenced to six months, but later on 18 May 2008 he committed suicide.

9-ALBERT GONZALEZ


 Top 10 Hackers in the World


ALBERT GONZALEZ, born in 1981 is considered the ninth most notorious black hat hacker of the world. He is basically an American computer hacker and a great computer criminal who is involved in the crime of masterminding the most smartly and strategically theft of credit card. In other words, Albert Gonzalez made the safest transaction of money of the internet banking very doubtful. Albert Gonzalez was arrested on March 25, 2010 and sentenced to twenty years in prison for committing the biggest fraud 170 million card and ATM numbers.

10-GARY MCKINNON


 Top 10 Hackers in the World


GARY MCKINNON, commonly known as "Solo", born on 10 February 1966, is included in the list of most notorious black hat hackers of the world. He is currently a Scottish systems administrator and a former hacker who hacked almost 97 United States military and NASA systems which is regarded as a biggest military computer hack in the world. But it is really interesting that he did this biggest hack in the house of his girlfriend's relative. For this hacking, Gary Mickinnon was sentenced to more than 13 months in 2002.





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