Instagram big boy Raymond Abbas aka Huspuppi has been on the news for more than two months now for allegedly commiting cyber crime. Hushpuppi, Woodberry alongside 10 others were arrested by Interpol in a special code-named 'Fox Hunt 2'.
Given the weight of the suspected fraud Hushpuppi and his group allegedly committed, one may think that he has committed the worst or the biggest cyber crime ever.
Below are some famous hackers ever and the crime they committed.
1. Hamza Bendelladj
He is an Algerian computer 🖥 guru who goes by the name BXL and fondly called the Smiling Hacker.
He Hacked into more than 200 American banks in the span of around 3 years(2009–2011) through a virus called SpyEye.
He even sold the complicated version of the SpyEye virus to his colleagues for $10, 000.
An estimated sum of 400 million USD included disappeared inside a large portion of a day from 217 American banks.
There are even cases that it took almost 1 billion dollars for the banks to repay the harm that he has brought by the SpyEye virus.
He was arrested captured in Bangkok, Thailand in mid 2013 while changing planes and was handed over to US in the blink of an eye.
At the point when he was arrested by the Bangkok air terminal police while making a visit with his family among Cairo and Kuala Lampur for excursion, he was smiling to the police, and he subsequently waved goodbye to his wife and his daughter as as continued their journey to Egypt without him.
When asked about the hacked cash he said that he gave all the cash to the poor people in Africa and Palestine.
Bendelladj is currently serving his prison term in United States since May 2013 after he was sentenced to 15 years prison and 3 years of probation.
2. Gary McKinnon
He infiltrated 97 US military and NASA computers, by installing a malicious programme, thereby deleting few files. All the efforts to satisfy his curiosity, but, alas, curiosity killed the cat. It was soon discovered that McKinnon was guilty of having hacked the military and NASA websites from his girlfriend’s aunt’s house in London. While entering and deleting the files from these websites wasn’t enough, McKinnon thought of shaming the security forces by putting out a notice on the website that said, “Your security is crap.” Well, looks like McKinnon was something, if he could shut down the US Military’s Washington Network of about 2000 computers for 24 hours, making the hack, the biggest military computer hack of all time!
3. Kevin Mitnick
Once upon a time, the most wanted cyber-criminal of US, now is an affluent entrepreneur. Kevin, who is now a security consultant, was convicted of hacking Nokia, Motorola and Pentagon. He pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud that included wire fraud, computer fraud and of illegally interception a wire communication. After five years of incarceration that included eight months of solitary confinement, Mitnick now has started afresh. However, his knack with the computers is still reminisced and was even depicted on celluloid in the films Takedown and Freedom Downtown.
4. LulzSec
LulzSec or Lulz Security, a high profile, Black Hat hacker group, gained credentials for hacking into Sony, News International, CIA, FBI, Scotland Yard, and several noteworthy accounts. So notorious was the group that when it hacked into News Corporations account, they put across a false report of Rupert Murdoch having passed away. While the group claims to have retired from their vile duties, the motto of the group, “Laughing at your security since 2011!” stays alive. There are assertions of the group having hacked into the websites of the newspapers like The Times and The Sun to post its retirement news. Many, however, claim that this group had taken it upon itself to create awareness about the absence of efficient security against hackers.
5. Jonathan James
The first juvenile to be imprisoned for a cyber-crime at the age of 16, Jonathan James or better known as c0mrade, hacked into Defense Threat Reduction Agency of US department. Further, he installed a sniffer that scrutinized the messages passed on between the DTRA employees. Not only did he keep a check on the messages being passed around, in the process, he collected the passwords and usernames and other such vital details of the employees, and further even stole essential software. All this cost NASA to shut down its system and to pay from its pocket $41,000. c0mrade, however, had a bitter ending as James committed suicide in 2008
6. Adrian Lamo
Adrian Lamo decided to switch careers when he realized the potentials of his skills. He became a news when he hacked into Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, and The New York Times. This, although culminated into his arrest, it later helped him gain the batch of an American Threat Analyst. A guy who would hack into top-notch accounts sitting in the spacious and comforting cafeterias, libraries, internet cafes, soon turned Wikileaks suspect Bradley Manning over to FBI. While Manning was arrested for leaking several hundred sensitive US government documents, Lamo went hiding or should we presume, undercover?
7. Kevin Poulsen
How far would you go to win your dream car or a dream house? How far will you go to win an online contest or a radio show contest? Perhaps, you shall keep trying your luck, unless you are Kevin Poulsen! Poulsen infiltrated a radio shows call-in contest just so he could win a Porsche. Dark Dante, as he was better known, went underground after FBI started pursuing him. He, later, was found guilty of seven counts of mail, wire and computer fraud, money laundering and the likes. What turned out to be rewarding in Dark Dante’s case is – his past crafted his future. Poulsen now serves as a Senior Editor at Wired.
8. Mike Calce
Michael Demon Calce, also known as the MafiaBoy of cyberspace, was a high school apprentice at West Island, Quebec when he got involved in a series of publicized denial-of-service attacks against some of the largest commercial websites, including Yahoo!, eBay, CNN, Amazon.com and Dell, Inc. In 2000, he targeted Yahoo! through project Rivolta, a term which means “riot” in Italy. He initially denied the offenses charged against him but accepted the accusations in 2001.
9. Mark Abene
Known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, Mark Abene was a New York-based hacker who used to be a member of some of the most notorious hacker groups in the United States, including the Legion of Doom and the Masters of Deception. He was a high-profile hacker who targeted large corporations and was among the most important figures of the Masters of Deception. Aside from computers, he also explored and hacked several telecommunication systems.
10. George Hotz
An alumnus of the John Hopkins Centre for Talented Youth program, George Francis Hotz is known for hacking the iPhone so that it could be used with other wireless carriers. He was also the one who developed the limera1n jailbreak tool, the tool that could remove the limitations of Apple devices such as iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV. He was also sued by Sony for hacking the PlayStation3.
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