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Nerdo

IRL Name: 
Christopher Weatherhead
Biography: 

Christopher Weatherhead a.k.a Nerdo has been convicted in a London court on one count of conspiracy to impair the operation of computers under the 1977 Criminal Law Act. He was arrested in January 2011 in connection with "Operation Payback", a series of prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that targeted PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and other web sites after they refused to process payments to Wikileaks. He is said to have coordinated the DDoS attacks through IRC chat rooms as the "communications manager" for a group of hackers belonging to the Anonymous collective, according to a report in The Guardian.

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Eshkinkot

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Eshkinkot
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A hacker from Russia that hacked into the Georgia governments CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team). He is part of the 'Georbot Botnet'. He spread malware into the computers allowing him to steal sensitive documents. In an effort to prevent this the Georgian (CERT) team planted a file that served as bait to the hacker. The hacker took the bait and the government was able to attain images of the hacker known only as Eshkinkot. As of now he has not been arrested.

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ViruS_HimA

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ViruS_HimA is an Egyptian defacer who rose into fame for hacking into Adobe servers, dumped 150,000 accounts and leaked private data in November 2012. He also leaked Yahoo's data in December 2012.

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Xon

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Xon was the guy who took over the leadership of the Electronik Tribulation Army after the arrest of GhostExodus and made claims that they have gone whitehat but still continued harassing a security expert named Robert Wesley McGrew. His house was raided by the FBI in 2010 after a complaint against their anarchist hacking group ETA.

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GhostExodus

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Jesse William McGraw
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Jesse William McGraw is a former contract security guard at the North Central Medical Plaza on North Central Expressway in Dallas, who admitted hacking into that hospital’s computer systems by putting malware on a dozen machines. He also installed the remote-access program LogMeIn on the hospital’s Windows-controlled HVAC system. McGraw admitted that he intended to use the bots and the compromised computers to launch DDoS attacks on the websites of rival hacker groups. He was sent to jail after a security expert named Wesley McGrew tipped off the FBI in 2009.

He became a two-time fugitive and attempted to flee the country. He broke into a US Customs-controlled shipyard and blackmailed the captain of a cargo ship into taking him to Nigeria after discovering that they were disabling their AIS tracking beacon while in international waters.

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The Fixer, etaFixer, thefixer25, fix, c0aX, ballsdeep

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Benjamin Nichols
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Benjamin Nichols is one of the members of an anarchistic hacking group called the Electronik Tribulation Army that harassed a security expert Robert Wesley McGrew of McGrew Security who helped put the group’s leader in jail, according to an unsealed search warrant affidavit.

Nichols Harvested email addresses from Mississippi State University where Wesley Mcgrew was attending. Nichols spammed invitations to the website wesleymcgrew.com to entire campus ( a website Nichols registered as a platform to harass Wesley Mcgrew) from [email protected] with the Subject line "Hey everyone check out my new website!"

The website featured photo-shopped images of Wesley Mcgrew's face on gay bondage photos and an order form where users could mail dildos to Mcgrews home address titled "Show your support for the whitehat community, Mail Wesley Mcgrew a dildo!" Nichols himself has also sent sex toys to Wesley Mcgrews residence. His home was raided by the FBI last June 23, 2010. He has a dox in pastebin.

On April 5th 2016, Nichols pleaded guilty to “knowingly and purposefully launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack” on or before May 2010 against mcgrewsecurity.com. News articles have stated that the attack caused a $6,500 loss and that Nichols faces up to 10 years in federal prison along with a $250,000 fine.

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Hitcher

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Hitcher is a current member of the Pakistan Cyber Force, he was a former member of the ZCompany Hacker Crew. He hacked 96k official main pages and they don't hack any Pakistani site. He hates the US and NATO due to the butchery of innocent people.

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S3rver.exe

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A 13 year old hacker from Australia, he is known for hacking Sony Pictures, Zuffa’s Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and major government sites. He claims to be a gray hat hacker because he likes to help people out. He uses the Blackhole exploit kit along with botnets to help him with the DDOS attacks.

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ReD-Zar

IRL Name: 
Ridouan
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A member of the new hacking group called Arab Electronic Army. He was involved in some attacks that defaced websites in the United States in response to a video called Innocence of Muslims. Many of the defaced web sites had Brazilian domain names. They targeted many low-profile sites but they threatened to target more sites as a protest.

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Barrett Brown

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Barrett Brown is a 31 year old computer hacker living in Dallas, Texas. He claims to be the leader of Anonymous even though the group boasts itself on having no leader. He is known for wanting to hack the Zeta's which is a deadly drug cartel in Mexico. He was arrested on September 12, 2012 at his home due to him threatening the FBI agent Robert Smith during a Tinychat session.

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