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Christopher Chaney

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Christopher Chaney
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Age 35 this year and residing in Jacksonville, Florida; Chris allegedly broke in to approximately 50 different celebrity email accounts before becoming arrested by the FBI as part of their "Operation Hackerazzi".

Prosecutors were trying to get the following penalties:
71 months in prison and forced to pay restitution several victims including the following:
-- $7,500 to Christina Aguilera
-- $66,179.46 to Scarlett Johansson
-- $76,767.35 to actress Renee Olstead
-- $10k to AFTRA Health Fund.

In December 2012, Chaney was sentenced to ten years in prison for his crimes.

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Chen Ing-Ha

IRL Name: 
Chen Ing-Ha
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Chen Ing-Ha is from Taiwan who was responsible for creating the Chernobyl or Spacefiller, a Microsoft Windows computer virus and one of the most damaging computer viruses of all time. Although his virus is popularly dubbed as Chernobyl, the virus is known to experts as CIH and Mr Chen's colleagues say he had acknowledged using his own initials in naming the virus.

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leDed

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Stanislav Avdeyko
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A Russian hacker and leader of the group Ali Baba & 4. He used the Koobface worm to infect multiple computer systems and install keyloggers. He has not been charged of crimes and no law enforcement agency has confirmed they are under investigation or even commented on the situation.

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BadB

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Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin
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Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, (Russian: Владислав Анатольевич Хорохорин), alias BadB, is a former hacker and international credit card trafficker who was convicted of wire fraud and served a seven-year prison sentence. Horohorin was born on September 29, 1982, and grew up in Donetsk, Ukraine, emigrating in 1999 to Israel with his mother, where he served in the Israeli Defence Forces.

According to the undercover investigation led by the United States Secret Service, Horohorin was one of the founders of CarderPlanet, one of several websites taken down in 2004, as part of the Secret Service's Operation Firewall investigation. The web sites were operated by cyber criminal organizations to traffic counterfeit credit cards, and false identification information and documents. These websites not only shared information on how to commit fraud, but also provided a forum through which to purchase fraud-related information and tools. "The network created by the founders of CarderPlanet, including Vladislav Horohorin, remains one of the most sophisticated organizations of online financial criminals in the world," said Michael Merritt, Assistant Director for Investigations. "This network has been repeatedly linked to nearly every major intrusion of financial information reported to the international law enforcement community. This arrest illustrates the significance of the Secret Service's commitment to traversing the globe in pursuit of online criminals.

Horohorin promoted his illegal activities by creating video cartoons ridiculing American card holders.

Separately, in 2013, Horohorin was named co-conspirator in an indictment, but was not subsequently charged, in a criminal case in District of New Jersey 09-626 (JBS), in which other Russian individuals were charged with successfully hacking Nasdaq, 7-Eleven, Carefour, JCPenney, Heartland Payment Systems, Dow Jones, Jetblue and 23 more corporations.This breach was called the "Largest known data breach conspiracy ever prosecuted" by the U.S. Justice Department. As of April 2017, none of Horohorin's co-conspirators had been sentenced.

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Ryan Clearly

IRL Name: 
Ryan Clearly
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Ryan Cleary is from Essex, United Kingdom who was arrested by Metropolitan Police on June 21 2011 and charged with violating the Computer Misuse Act and the Criminal Law Act 1977. He was accused of being a member of LulzSec but was not a member of the said group although he admitted that he did run one of the IRC channels that they used for communicating. He also faces prosecution of joining other members of LulzSec in using hacked computers, known as a "botnet", to steal confidential information, deface websites or attack servers.

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Harrison Amadin Ekpetin

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Harrison Amadin Ekpetin
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Harrison Amadin Ekpetin is a Nigerian who is wanted in the USA for his alleged involvement in several incidents of Home Equity Line of Credit fraud originating in the continental United States, often in New Mexico, from 2009 to 2011. It is alleged that Ekpetin illegally gained access to bank accounts and successfully executed a series of fraudulent transactions resulting in funds being wired to banks overseas. The fraudulent activities allegedly resulted in more than $4 million in losses to financial institutions in New Mexico, Virginia, New York, and elsewhere in the United States.

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Bjorn Daniel Sundin

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Bjorn Daniel Sundin
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Bjorn Daniel Sundin, along with his co-conspirator, Shaileshkumar P. Jain, is wanted for his alleged involvement in an international cybercrime scheme that caused internet users in more than 60 countries to purchase more than one million bogus software products, resulting in consumer loss of more than $100 million. It is alleged that from December 2006 to October 2008, through fake advertisements placed on legitimate companies’ websites, Sundin and his accomplices deceived internet users into believing that their computers were infected with “malware” or had other critical errors in order to encourage them to purchase “scareware” software products that had limited or no ability to remedy the purported defects.

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Jie Dong

IRL Name: 
Jie Dong
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Jie Dong is an Asian who is wanted in America for or defrauding Internet auction site users out of approximately $800,000. In the fall of 2003, Dong allegedly offered items on the auction site and collected money from the purported winning bidders. Dong is alleged to have never produced the promised merchandise to the nearly 5,000 victims. Dong is believed to have later fled from the United States to China and may now be in Hong Kong.

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th3j35t3r

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th3j35t3r is a hacktivist known for his successful take downs of websites like Jihadi recruiting websites, WikiLeaks, 4chan, the Westboro Baptist Church, the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a PsyOps hack of Libyan online newspaper where he inserted articles describing soldiers loyal to the regime defecting in droves. He uses a DoS tool he created which he called XerXes. He likes to tweet "TANGO DOWN" on Twitter whenever he successfully takes down a website (or takes credit for one that went down for reasons unrelated to him).

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Bo Zhang

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Bo Zhang
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Bo Zhang is a Chinese computer programmer who pleaded guilty to stealing software code from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in a case that raised cyber-security concerns when he was arrested. The FBI questioned him when he admitted the theft but did not arrest him until January 2012 because congressional investigators became concerned that the New York Fed was vulnerable to cyber attacks after the arrest.

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