Adrian Lamo was most well known for snitching out Wikileaks source Bradley Manning. He died of a snitch juice overdose on March 14, 2018.
Adrian Lamo was previously most well known for breaking into The New York Times internal computer network in February 2002, adding his name to confidential databases of expert sources, and using the paper's LexisNexis account to conduct research on high-profile subjects, although his first published activities involved operating AOL watchdog site Inside-AOL.com. The Times filed a complaint and a warrant for Lamo's arrest was issued in August 2003 following a 15 month investigation by federal prosecutors in New York. At 10:15 AM on September 9, after spending a few days in hiding, he surrendered to the US Marshals in Sacramento, California. He re-surrendered to the FBI in New York City on September 11, and plead guilty to one count of computer crimes against Microsoft, Lexis-Nexis and The New York Times on January 8, 2004.
Later in 2004, Lamo was sentenced to six months detention at his parent's home plus two years probation, and was ordered to pay roughly $65,000 in restitution. He was convicted of compromising security at The New York Times and Microsoft, and is alleged to have admitted to exploiting security weaknesses at Excite@Home,Yahoo!, MCI WorldCom, Ameritech, Cingular and has allegedly violated network security at AOL Time Warner, Bank of America, Citigroup, McDonald's and Sun Microsystems. Companies sometimes use proxies to allow their employees access to the internet, without giving the internet access to their internal network. However, when these proxies are improperly configured, they can allow access to the company's internal network. Lamo often exploited this, sometimes using a tool called ProxyHunter. One of the things that made him unique is that he did all of his intrusion without any programming.
Karim Baratov is a Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen who has pleaded guilty to hacking charges over his involvement in massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected all three billion yahoo accounts. He was charged with 47 counts of hacking, ID theft, and espionage. However, as part of the agreement, he was allowed to admit one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and eight counts of aggravated identity theft.
The US government claimed he was part of a Russian gang of four that hacked the Purple Palace's servers in 2014, that Baratov was therefore connected to the caper, and that two of his fellow gang members and paymasters were at the time senior Russian FSB officers. However, Baratov's lawyers insisted he did not know who was hiring him. His defense team told The Register Baratov was approached online to infiltrate people's webmail accounts for about $100 a pop. He was asked to hack 80 accounts, mostly Gmail inboxes, but only pwned eight before stopping.
Justin Gray Liverman a.k.a D3F4ULT from Morehead City, North Carolina, is accused of being part of the hacktivist group known as "Crackas With Attitude," or CWA, which rose to fame last year for breaking into the AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan.
According to the affidavit, the FBI identified Liverman as a hacker known by several aliases such as "D3f4ult" and "Bashtien" in part thanks to an IP address he used to access the D3f4ault and Bashtien Twitter accounts. That IP address was registered to an Edith Liverman, who Justin lived with at the time.
Andrew Otto Boggs a.k.a Incursio of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina was part of a hacking group named Crackas With Attitude (CWA), which between late 2015 and early 2016 has hacked a large number of government agencies and officials, and have dumped sensitive data on the Internet.
Rohitab Batra is a virus writer who was born in India and attended St. Stephen's College and Kurukshetra University. He now lives in the US. He is the author of Virus/Win9x/Blackbat and Virus/DOS/Shadow. In addition to virus coding, he has had many other jobs involving computers.
Lord Yup , who also has gone by the name dis69, is a former virus coder affiliated with the 29A group. He was born in Poland in 1985. His first computer was an Amiga 600HD. This computer at some point became infected with the Bytebandit virus. This probably sparked his interest in viruses, but he did not particularly care for programming on the Amiga.
Sepultura is a virus writer and creator from Australia who has been coding viruses since the 1990's. He worked with such groups and magazines as Immortal Riot and Insane Reality.
Bumblebee is a virus writer and a member of 29a. He is the author of Ayuda which is a Windows Help file virus from Madrid Spain.
The Disk Jockey a.k.a doug (another doug and not the one from Bell Labs) is a hacker featured (prophiled) in Phrack Magazine Issue Thirty-Four. He selected his handle way back in the Apple days, when it was hip to have a hardware-related name. He was lucky enough to have his hands on computers early, back in the days of the PET and the TRS-80 but had fun poking at a Trash-80.
On June 27, 1988 at 1:47am, he was busted by the feds and was arrested for 6 counts of "conspiracy to commit fraud".
Qark was an Australian virus writer and member (one of the two founders) of the virus writing group 'VLAD' (Virus Labs And Distribution). Qark seemed to be the most prolific member of VLAD with a career spanning 1994 to 1997. All of Qark's viruses, except Win95.Memorial, were published in VLAD magazine.