Roman Vega is a Ukranian who is the co-founder of CarderPlanet, formerly one of the largest carder forums with over 6,000 members. He was sentenced to serve 18 years in prison for his role in co-founding the website CarderPlanet. He began a life of cybercrime in 1990 when he founded Boa Factory, a website that sold stolen credit card information. He was arrested in February 2003 in Cyprus with over 500,000 stolen credit card numbers
and extradited to the US in 2007. He pled guilty in 2009.
Born in Russia in 1982, Anna Chapman was living in New York City when she made headlines in June 2010. Along with nine others, she was arrested on suspicion of working as a spy for the Russian government. Chapman plead guilty, and was deported back to Russia in July 2010, in the biggest spy swap deal since 1986. Her good looks made Chapman the focus of the media spotlight, and upon returning to Russia she posed for a men's magazine and hosted a TV show.
Paunch is a malware kingpin who is the alleged author of Blackhole and Cool exploit kits. He was arrested by the Russian authorities last October 2013. Russian security and forensics firm Group-IB, which assisted in the investigation, released additional details, including several pictures of Paunch. According to Group-IB, Paunch had more than 1,000 customers and was earning $50,000 per month from his illegal activity.
Fidel Salinas Jr. was charged by the feds for accessing a protected computer without authorization in connection with his attempted hack of the Hidalgo County website. In January 2012, he made more than 14,000 attempts to log on to the Hidalgo County website’s server. When interviewed by the FBI, "he told agents that he would often talk with other members of Anonymous via Web chat."
Charged with hacking into the computer networks of the US military and Nasa, causing millions of dollars of damage.
Lauri Love, an activist in the Occupy movement, is alleged to have stolen ‘massive amounts’ of confidential information – including details of military servicemen – by breaking into thousands of computers.
The 28-year-old from Stradishall, Suffolk, is said to have bragged in messages with his co-conspirators: ‘You have no idea how much we can f*** with the US government if we wanted to’.
Love was described as a ‘sophisticated and prolific’ hacker in court documents filed in New Jersey, where he is charged with one count of accessing a US department or agency computer without permission and another charge of conspiracy.
The operation was carried out by the National Crime Agency, the new elite force known as 'Britain's FBI'.
John Anthony Borell III a.k.a was sentenced to 3 years or his part in the #OpPiggyBank hacking of police websites by the group CabinCr3w. He admitted in a signed plea deal, in early 2012, he attacked a server for Utahchiefs.org, a website for police in Syracuse, New York, the municipal website of Springfield, Mo., and a site for the Los Angeles County Police Canine Association.
Guccifer is best known for hacking into the personal email of the head of National Intelligence Council. He has also carried out a string of high profile hacks against prominent targets including the Bush family, a Google board member, the former Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan, the director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Guccifer was eventually jailed in January 2014 in his home country of Romania for hacking the email addresses of public officials for his country, and extradited to the United States on federal charges.
Lance Moore is known as 'Anonymous’ Inside Man at AT&T' for being a former AT&T Mobility contractor who handed over to Anonymous tens of thousands of phone numbers, confidential server names with IP addresses, usernames, and passwords to log into them, plus corporate emails, presentation documents, and intellectual property that was used by the LulzSec/Antisec movement. On June 25, 2011, the computer hacking group LulzSec publicized that they had obtained confidential AT&T documents and made them publicly available on the Internet. The documents were the ones Moore had previously uploaded to Fileape.com.
Vladimir Tsastsin lead the development of DNSchanger malware together with Timur Gerassimenko, Dmitri Jegorov, Valeri Aleksejev, Konstantin Poltev and Anton Ivanvov to help perpetrate a profitable clickjacking scheme that netted it $14 million in stolen advertising views. The malware pioneered the method of using social engineering techniques to deliver unobtrusive payloads used to hijack victims’ DNS settings in order to set up revenue streams based on their manipulated browsing. Law enforcement closed in on the takedown after a multiyear, public-private investigation it dubbed “Operation Ghost Click,” which was initiated nearly five years ago after researchers with Trend Micro brought the gang’s botnet to the attention of the Feds.
tr0ut is one of the members of h4g1s (Hackers Against Geeks in Snowsuits), the group that hacked the National Aeronautics & Space Administration website in the year 1997 which started a private little cyber war between h4g1s members; u4ea and tr0ut against Jay Dyson, a whitehat who works for NASA. tr0ut and u4ea also hacked two Internet service providers to fuck up Jay Dyson by cracking his home business and harassing his wife which in turn costs his marriage. h4g1s has also breached Yahoo and propeller-head sites Slashdot and Rootshell. Each time, it engaged in a little nanny-nanny-boo-boo and made demands for the release of a jailed hacker hero, Kevin Mitnick. When Hagis cracked the Greenpeace, it posted a warning: "Phree Kevin Mitnick or we will club 600 baby seals."