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Andy Müller-Maguhn

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Andy Müller-Maguhn
Biography: 

Member of the German hacker association the Chaos Computer Club. In an election in autumn 2000, he was voted in as an at-large director of ICANN. In 2005 and 2006, Müller-Maguhn was involved on the side of the parents of the deceased hacker Boris Floricic, better known as Tron.

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Riot

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Jason Chon
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Former member of the Legion of Doom.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Doom_(hacking)

v00d00

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Jason Burks
Biography: 

Born on October 2, 1976, v00d00 is best known for writing the Juggernaut Hydra and releasing it into an office building mainframe. It caused electrical failures throughout the building, and crashed the system servers.

In 2005, Mr. Burks was a suspect in the remote access of the National Security database. The investigation concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to gain interest to a primary suspect due to the fact that there was no evidence of file disturbance.

In 2006, he designed a method of programming that utilizes probability theory. The method is still under investigation however it is being utilized at several Universities throughout the United States.

v00d00 passed away on September 29, 2008 in a single vehicle traffic accident.

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Alexander Dmitriyevich Paskalov

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Alexander Dmitriyevich Paskalov
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Alexander Dmitriyevich Paskalov, 38, multiple U.S. addresses, was sentenced on 10/12/2007 in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida, and received 42 months in prison for his participation in a significant and complex phishing scheme that targeted a major financial institution in the Midwest and resulted in multi-million dollar losses.

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Adam Sweaney

IRL Name: 
Adam Sweaney
Biography: 

On May 8, 2006, and continuing through in onto April 27, 2007, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Adam Sweaney did willfully and knowingly combine, conspire, agree, and confederate with others known and unknown to commit offenses against the United States. Engaging in a scheme to intentionally access protected computers without authorization and in so doing, recklessly causing damage to those computers.

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Adam Botbyl

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Adam Botbyl
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American Hacker from Michigan. Second hacker who entered Lowe's computers network. First being his friend Brian Salcedo. The were wardriving, and found a unsecured wireless access point used by the Lowe's chain of home improvement and hardware stores. Several months later they returned to find to to explore and exploit the network at a store located in Southfield, Michigan. They we charged with wire fraud, and unauthorized access. Later he got 26 months in prison.

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