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David Pokora

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David Pokora
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David Pokora is one of the members and is also regarded as the leader of Xbox Underground. He is also the first foreign hacker ever to be sentenced on United States soil, received an 18-month prison term on April 23, 2015 and was released in July 2015.

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superDaE

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Dylan Shane Terry Wheeler
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Dylan Shane Terry Wheeler a.k.a superDaE (born December 30, 1995) is an Australian & Czech hacker known for being a part of the Xbox Underground hacking group. He was the subject of a report on ABC's 7.30 regarding his leaving Australia. Wheeler, who was 17 at the time, was the one who listed the homemade Xbox One prototype on eBay at a time when the console was still under development. He was named as a co-conspirator in a sealed federal US indictment in July 2013 leaked by the The Smoking Gun which alleges the group named Xbox Underground were responsible for compromising computer networks of its targets between 2011 and 2013, according to the 65-page indictment.

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Deniss Calovskis

IRL Name: 
Deniss Calovskis
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Deniss Calovskis is one of the coders responsible for Gozi, a trojan that infected more than a million machines worldwide five years ago. He had prior claimed he was innocent to any role in creating the malware family used in numerous cyberheists.

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Sl3az3

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Sl3az3 is the author or developer of Optix Pro which is a a configurable remote access tool or Trojan, similar to SubSeven or BO2K.

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bighawk

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Jogchem de Groot
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Jogchem de Groot a.k.a bighawk is a member of Hackweiser which is an underground hacking group and hacking magazine founded in 1999.

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QUEEN, QUEEN SH0CKA, UNSEENz

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Valérie Gignac
Biography: 

Valérie Gignac goes by aliases that include QUEEN, QUEEN SH0CKA, and UNSEENz in numerous hacking / skiddie forums. She was arrested in 2016 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for allegedly eavesdropped on private conversations and spooked her victims by talking to them through their infected computers’ speakers. She also allegedly logged on to extreme pornography websites after hijacking the computers, displaying adult content to people – including children – in Canada and other countries, the Mounties.

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Phineas Fisher, Hack Back

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Phineas is best known as being the hacker who claimed responsibility for breaching Gamma International (The makers of the FinFisher spyware) and Hacking Team. In the case of the Gamma hack, he shared a torrent of roughly 40 GB of data stating on reddit that he had “hard proof they knew they were selling (and still are) to people using their software to attack Bahraini activists, along with a whole lot of other stuff in that 40GB.” In May 2016, he attacked the Catalan police Mossos D’Esquadra and posted a 39 minute video showing how he got the data from it. He has stated that he does not wish to start a formal movement citing anonymous and LulzSec as examples, but he doesn't want to be the only hacker fighting the system.

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LEYTE_PR1D3

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LEYTE_PR1D3 a.k.a nemesis (PH) in zone-h is a Filipino web defacer and a member of the Str4what Pirates Crew, a hacker group based in the Philippines. He is responsible for defacing the Full Disclosure Policy Portal Website and possibly the one who leaked more or less than 5,000 usernames and passwords of government officials in the Local Governance Performance Management System Website last August 2013.

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Captain Midnight

IRL Name: 
John R. MacDougall
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John R. MacDougall is an American electrical engineer and business owner who is the guy who hijacked HBO’s satellite signal in 1986 using the handle "Captain Midnight" to broadcast a message protesting their rates for satellite dish owners, which he considered too expensive.

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Sina Keissar

IRL Name: 
Sina Keissar
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Sina is one of seven hackers indicted by the DOJ for 2011-2013 DDoS attacks against US Banks conducted by Iran. As a result of being accused of having a part in the DDoS attacks, he is on the FBI's most wanted cybercriminal list.

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