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Garet Jax

IRL Name: 
Dylan
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Snuff's twin.

Supposedly a weapons master.

Member of BlackCode and Phorce.

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Z0MBiE

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Russian Virus Writer, former member of 29A. was t

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Vecna, Sangue Suj

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Vecna is a virus writer and former member of 29A. He is known for creating the Babylonia Virus in 1999 at Brazil.

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AKILL, Snow Whyte, Snow Walker

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Owen Thor Walker
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Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called “Operation Bot Roast II” bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in 2007, responsible for pump’n'dump stock price manipulations through spam, infecting 1.3M computers with malware, further infecting them with spyware earning nearly $40,000 in the process, in between launching a DDoS attack against the University of Pennsylvania, causing an overall damage of over $20M.

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Minor Threat

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Christopher M. Lamprecht
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Chris Lamprecht is regarded as the first person to be banned from the Internet. After being sentenced to 70 months in prison for money laundering, Lamprecht was also given the unusual punishment of no access to the Internet until 2003.

Under the order of Judge Sam Sparks of the US District Court in 1995, Lamprecht was ordered to 70 months in the Federal Correctional Institution. Though a known computer hacker, the 24 year old was never tried, nor pled guilty for computer related crimes, making it the more unusual that he was not allowed to access the Internet. In 2002 Judge Sam Sparks released Lamprecht from his term of supervised release, effectively lifting his Internet ban as well.

Chris Lamprecht co-authored the computer wardialer program ToneLoc in the 1990s with Mucho Maas, and he currently works at Indeed.com.

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Kefka, Shto, Ordune

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Clinton H. Weir
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While Clint Weir is not really famous, he is the original founder of SOLDIERX in 1997. He originally named the group SOLDIER and put RaT in charge of it as the President. Prior to the creation of SOLDIER, Clint introduced RaT to hackware and showed him that software systems were manipulable. He was closely involved with SOLDIERX from its beginnings in 1997 until around 2001.

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David Smith, Kwyjibo, VicodinES, Alt-F11

IRL Name: 
David L. Smith
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David L. Smith (born c.1968) is the writer of the Melissa worm. In March 1999, the then 31-year-old programmer released the Melissa worm in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey by deliberately posting an infected document to an alt.sex Usenet newsgroup from a stolen AOL account. It is believed that Smith named the virus after a lap-dancer he had known in Florida. He called himself Kwyjibo, but was shown to be identical to macrovirus writers VicodinES and Alt-F11, who had several Word-files with the same characteristic Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), a serial number that was earlier generated with the network card MAC address as a component. The virus forwards itself to the first 50 addresses in a person’s Outlook address book. It is also known to damage documents by putting in the text, “twenty-two, plus triple-word score, plus fifty points for using all my letters. Game’s over. I’m outta here”, a reference to The Simpsons episode Bart the Genius, from where the name 'kwyjibo' also originates.

Companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Lockheed Martin, and Lucent Technologies were forced to shut down their e-mail gateways due to the vast amount of e-mail the virus was generating. The Melissa virus was the most costly computer outbreak to date, causing more than $80 million in damages to North American businesses. In December of the same year, Smith pleaded guilty to creating and releasing the virus. He was one of the first people to ever be prosecuted for writing a virus. The sentence, originally ten years (of a maximum forty year sentence) in a United States federal prison, was reduced to twenty months and a $5,000 fine when Smith began working undercover with the FBI shortly after his capture. Initially only working eighteen hours per week, Smith was soon bumped up to a forty hour work week. He was tasked with gaining connections among authors of new viruses, keeping an ear to the ground for software vulnerabilities, mitigating damage caused by these nefarious activities, and contributing to the capture of the perpetrators.

The task of tracing the worm to its originator was accomplished through the efforts of security analyst Jonathan James, who collaborated with the FBI on the case and who also traced the authors of the ILOVEYOU worm. Fredrik Björck also contributed to the identification of a website owned by VicodinES, later identified as David L. Smith.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Smith_(virus_writer)

Acid Phreak

IRL Name: 
Elias Ladopoulos
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One of the three founders of MOD, with Scorpion and HAC. His aspiration in life was to one day control the entire phone network. After a prank against a PBS station that left some equipment damaged, he and four others joined the party van (FBI raid).

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Erik Bloodaxe

IRL Name: 
Chris Goggans
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Chris Goggans, who used the name Erik Bloodaxe in honor of the Viking king of a similar name, is a founding member of the Legion of Doom group, and a former editor of Phrack Magazine. Loyd Blankenship, aka The Mentor, described Goggans/Bloodaxe as "the best hacker I ever met".

Goggans was raided by the US Secret Service on March 1, 1990, but was not charged.

But in a phone call intercepted by the Australian Federal Police as part of an investigation into Australian hacker Phoenix (Nahshon Even-Chaim) Goggans was heard planning a raid in which the pair would steal source code and developmental software from Execucom, an Austin, Texas, software and technology company, and sell it to the company’s rivals.

In the call, recorded on February 22, 1990 and later presented in the County Court of Victoria as evidence against Even-Chaim, Goggans and Even-Chaim canvassed how much money they could make from such a venture and how they would split fees from Execucom’s competitors. During the call Goggans provided Even-Chaim with a number of dial-up access numbers to Exexucom’s computers, commenting: "There are serious things I want to do at that place", and "There’s stuff that needs to happen to Execucom.". While there is no evidence that Goggans and Even-Chaim acted on this discussion, Goggans' statement of his intentions calls into question the nobility of his hacking ethics.

According to Michelle Slatella and Joshua Quittner in their 1995 book Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace, Goggans was in 1990 in the process of establishing his own computer security company in Texas. They claim he planned to recruit companies as clients by hacking them and showing how vulnerable their systems were to other hackers.

Currently, Goggans is president of SDI, Inc., a Virginia-based corporation providing information security consulting.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Bloodaxe_(hacker)

Laser

IRL Name: 
Jonathan O. Yantis
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A dick who liked to shoot his mouth off and threaten people on conference bridges. MOD was able to get his personal information from Fry Guy by offering to let him know how they kept getting his phone number (no matter how many times he changed it).

Used to say threats like, "oh Im going to get your phone number....oh Im going to Remob you with a DAMT...you better phear me !"

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MOD

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