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Creator of the Anna Kournikova Virus, he created this virus from a Visual basic Virus making kit and distributed it on a news group that same day. He was only 20 years old at the time this happened. he received only 150 hours of community service. He claimed not to be a maker but collector of viruses, about 7,200 at the time of his arrest.

An American hacker from Green Bay, Wisconsin, who operated under the alias of Mindphasr. He was the subject of one of the most high-profile prosecutions of cybercriminals of the late 20th century. Davis is a founding member of the globalHell syndicate of hackers, and is suspected to have authored or participated in the hacking of the websites of numerous businesses and government agencies.

Officials said that typically Davis used the ColdFusion software development framework, and attacked vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows programs to gain backdoor entry into a system. It should be noted that Davis did not program in ColdFusion; rather, he exploited a vulnerability discovered by rain.forest.puppy and extended to allow file uploads by a member of the L0pht. Davis also allegedly used Domain Name System spoofing extensively, especially on the Eris Free Network.

Raphael Gray was just 19 when he hacked computer systems around the world over six weeks between January and February 1999 as part of a multi-million pound credit card mission. He then proceeded to publish credit card details of over 6,500 cards as an example of weak security in the growing number of consumer websites.

Gray was able to break into the secure systems using just a £800 computer he bought in his home town Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, Wales. After publishing the credit card info on his webpages Gray posted on the page that law enforcers would never find him "because they never catch anyone. The police can't hack their way out of a paper bag."

Project Organizer of TCNiSO, a group specializing in cable modem hacking. On November 2nd, 2009 was charged in Boston with conspiracy and aiding and abetting computer intrusion and wire fraud.

Dmitri Galushkevich is a Russian hacker living in Tallinn in the Baltic state of Estonia. He was apparently upset over the relocation of a bronze statue commemorating the Russian soldiers who died in Estonia during World War II, and launched one of the largest cyber wars in history in retaliation. Using a botnet of "tens of thousands of compromised computers", he launched DoS attacks against state government, political parties, leading newspapers and financial institutions, effectively putting the entire country in an "internet gridlock". ATM's, websites and government systems were all disabled by the attacks, and some sites were redirected to images of Soviet soldiers and quotations from Martin Luther King about resisting "evil".

Estonia, one of the most "wired" countries in the world and home of the Internet phone-call company Skype, was effectively cut off from the Internet for several days. Estonian officials blamed Russia for the attacks at the time, though it was nearly impossible to trace them back to their sources. Enlisting the help of NATO, they were eventually able to track down Galushkevich in 2007. He was fined the equivalent of $1,600 American dollars for his efforts.

Captain Zap, aka Ian Arthur Murphy is an alleged hacker from Philadelphia who has been credited with many extraordinary feats, including being the first person ever to be tried and convicted as a felon in the US for computer related crimes. According to many sources, Murphy broke into AT&T's computers in 1981 and changed the internal clocks that metered billing rates allowing people to get the late-night discount rates when they called at midday, and left late-night callers to pay the full daytime rates. In the 1980's, Murphy and several friends ordered five Texas Instrument 787 terminals worth $3,800 each, a $13,000 Hewlett Packard minicomputer and other odds and ends in the names of fake corporations. All together they stole over $100,000 in goods and $212,000 in services. Murphy received an $1,000 fine, 2 and a half years probation and 15 hours a week of community service.

Many claim that Murphy is nothing more than a con-artist, and a number of interesting web pages exist that attempt to debunk his claims. One of the more interesting ones can be found here, complete with scanned affidavits alleging that he was never charged with anything other than shoplifting, domestic violence, vandalism, and petty theft. Murphy's official website is www.ravenswoodinc.com.

Nessun, aka Jason Michael Downey is an American hacker from Covington, Ky, and founder of the Rizon IRC network. He ran a botnet consisting of over 6000 compromised PC's to send spam emails and launch DDoS attacks, as well as administered the Yotta-Byte.net server, the alleged origin of a nasty variant of the Agobot worm. The worm disabled anti-virus protection and harvested software keys and user identification to sell on the black market.

On May 25, 2007 as part of Operation: Bot Roast, Downey was charged by the FBI with using a botnet in 2004 to launch Denial-of-service attacks against other computer networks, including rival IRC networks such as IRCHighway.

Downey was sentenced on October 23, 2007 to 12 months in prison and was ordered to pay $21,110 in damages to 3 companies that were affected by his DDoS attacks.

Maksik, aka Maksym Yastrzemski is a Ukrainian hacker linked to nearly every major breach of U.S. retail networks in the past four years. He is well-known in the underground as a top seller of stolen credit and debit card information, and for hacking into at least 12 Turkish banking systems. It has been reported that he earned more than $11 million selling stolen credit and debit card numbers and magstripe swipes from 2004 to 2006 alone. Yastrzemski reportedly held stolen card information from 37 coutries, including Turkey, the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, France, Argentina, Italy, Sweden, China, the Ukraine and Japan.

He was arrested and charged with infiltrating 12 Turkish banking systems, and was sentenced to 30 years.

Joybubbles, aka Josef Carl Engressia, Jr., was born in Richmond, Virginia on May 25, 1949 and died August 8, 2007 from natural causes. He was an early phone phreaker, and at five years old, discovered he could dial phone numbers by clicking the hang-up switch, also known as "tapping". At the age of 7, he accidentally discovered that whistling at certain frequencies could activate phone switches, and in the late 1960s, he was given the nickname “Whistler” due to his ability to place free long distance phone calls by whistling the proper tones.

Joybubbles “reverted to his childhood,” in May 1988, and remained there until his death claiming that he was five years old.

He legally changed his name to Joybubbles in 1991.

Black Baron, aka Christopher Pile, was an English hacker born in 1969. After reading Ross Greenberg's comments about virus authors (which was critical of virus authors and even went as far as calling them 'slime buckets'), he accepted the challenge to write a virus that Greenberg couldn't disarm. In the mid-1990's, he wrote a series of computer viruses using an advanced polymorphic technique he called 'SMEG'. Three variants of SMEG were developed and distributed; Pathogen, Queeg and Smeg 3.

A general description of the methods used in his polymorph engine can be found here, written by Black Baron himself.