According to his phrack profile, he started in the phreak world in 1971 due to the Esquire article on blue boxes and YIPL magazine. He obtained his first blue box by January, 1972. He started hacking in 1975 after obtaining a TI Silent 700 Series, Model 700 exceedingly dumb terminal. He stumbled upon ARPAnet in Massachusetts, the bridge at MIT...1 hour later, he figured out how to get on. He toyed with the MIT exchange and found the MULTICS system and their artificial intelligence system. They were just beginning to use a language called LISP at the time.
According to his phrack profile, he started out in the BBS world in 1979 when he first got his
modem, a 300 Baud Auto-Answer/Auto-Dial Micro-Connection Modem (made by Micro Peripheral Corp.) with tape input and output.
First, he started with a pirated version of TBBS 1.2, then an upgrade to 1.3, pirated again (occurred and at the same time a hard drive was added after a number of disk drive changes and modifications). Scan Man, through his BBS (which was in the first 5 all phreak/hack BBS's to ever go up, and is the oldest phreak board in the country), has met or talked to what he considers "anybody who is anybody".
At 11 years old, he found a few old phones, took them apart, and got them working, which was when his interest in telecom arose. He was led into the phreak world when he became aware that he could phreak (articles he read such as blue box articles). At the time, BBS's and personal computers did not exist at this time.
According to his phrack profile, he started out in the BBS world in late 1983 when he first got his modem. On March 23, 1985, The Broadway Show, his first bulletin board, was launched into the BBS world. It started on 1 disk drive at 300 baud and has upgraded incredibly. It was originally a phreak board as it currently is also. He had originally gotten his C-64 computer in early 1985. Various members of the elite world including King Blotto, Lex Luthor, and Dr. Who got on his board to make it the memorable board that it was before the format change. His phreak experience began in 1981 through CB radios when a CB'er gave him a code over the line. Some of the memorable phreak boards he was on included Blottoland, The AT&T Phone Center of 312, and Dark Side of the Moon of 818.
Alexander Waterland of Loveland, Ohio is a member of Anonymous responsible for hacking into the University of Pittsburgh. He emailed the University of Pittsburgh and threatened them about a bomb and releasing information from their computer systems.
A member of the group Anonymous, responsible for sending email threats about a bomb to the University of Pittsburgh this spring 2012. He allegedly hacked into the Pittsburgh college's computer system and stole personal information.
Sven Jaschan was born on April 29, 1986 and who lived in the village of Waffensen, Germany and attended a computer science school in nearby Rotenburg. He admitted to writing and releasing the two damaging worms (Netsky and Sasser) when arrested by German police on May 7, 2004 after a three-month long international investigation.
Adeanna Cooke is a former playboy model who is said to be one of the hottest hackers in the world. Her former friend decided to post on the internet as her and also decided to take money for doing so. This did not sit well with her. If anyone was going to be making money off her slamming body, it was going to be her. When she came across an unauthorized website with her face (and body) on it, she took matters into her own hands and hacked into the account herself to take them down.
A hacker from St. Petersburg, Russia that is part of the koobface gang and is partly responsible for spreading a notorious computer worm on Facebook and other social networks. Him and his buddies also pocketed several million dollars from online schemes.
The worm was introduced in 2008 and it was aimed to invite users to watch either a sexy or funny video. When the user clicks on it it would tell it to update the Flash software, which initiated the download of the worm. The computers of the victims would then drafted into a "botnet," or a network of infected PCs. The virus would post unsolicited software ads that when clicked on and purchased it was bogus from unscrupulous marketers.
Richard Roby a.k.a Krashed is a packet kiddie from America who initiated the attacks in retaliation against CJB networks for the shutdown of his botnet. He was later raided by the FBI as part of Operation Cyberslam. Initial charges brought against Roby as part of Operation Cyberslam were dropped but he later pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to an 18-month prison sentence. After being nailed by the FBI, Krashed then proceeded to kindly inform the FBI about everything he's been up to, as well as the activities of everyone he chatted with online.
Before getting arrested, Krashed liked to terrorize people on mirc-x.com and force them to reformat every few days, and he would try to impress the guys he had developed mancrushes on about how he had been busted twice as a minor for computer-related crimes, and how the judge told him the 2nd time that if he got in trouble again, he would either go in the Army or go to jail.
Simon Vallor is a web designer from North Wales who, in December 2002, pleaded guilty to writing and distributing three computer viruses. All of Vallor's viruses spread via the Outlook address book. Redesi was the most destructive virus, while Gokar was the most widespread, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at antivirus software vendor Sophos in Oxford, England.