A 21 year old British fast-food worker of Lancing, West Sussex. He hacked into American singer/actress Selena Gomez Facebook page. He posed as Brian Teefey, Selena's step-father to convince staff at the social networking firm to change passwords to her account. He went about posting negative statements about Justin Bieber and read personal information and messages about them. He got a one year prison sentence from this event.
François Cousteix a.k.a Hacker Croll is a French computer pirate noted for for hacking Twitter in July 2009. He was in close contact with reporters from TechCrunch who published numerous articles about the information obtained and the incident itself. He got access to the mailboxes of the company's employees through user-guessing or figuring them out by studying their Facebook pages, blogs or other websites.
Daniel Spitler 26 of San Francisco California, Infiltrated At&T servers and exploited an Ipad Data Breach. He wrote a script termed the "Ipad 3G Account Slurper" and deployed it against At&T's servers. Slurper attacked At&T's servers for several days in June 2010 and was designed to harvest as many ICC-ID/email address pairings as possible. It worked by mimicking the bahavior of an iPad 3G so that At&T's servers would be fooled into granting the Account Slurper access. Once deployed the slurper uses brute force attack to obtain information from the computer system against the servers. He was charged with one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and one count of fraud, according to the United States district attorney’s office in Newark.
Gregory D. Evans is an American self-proclaimed hacker who became famous because of the media hype, media interviews, haters, being a plagiarizer and disclosed in Attrition.org, and for being a douche bag. He also claims that he is the "WORLD'S NO 1 HACKER" and an ex-convict who claimed that he was ordered to pay back $10 million to AT&T, MCI and other fortune 500 companies due to computer hacking. He is currently the President & CEO at Hi-Tech Crime Solutions and also the owner of Cyber Group Network and LIGATT Security companies.
Aged 19, from Birr, Co Offaly
The son of independent Offaly County Councillor John Carroll, O’Cearrbhail was previously arrested last year on the charge of hacking Fine Gael’s website using a denial of service attack which overwhelmed the government’s web host in Arizona. He is currently enrolled in Trinity College as a Medicinal Chemistry student and is a former winner of the Irish Science Olympiad in Chemistry, Physics and Computer Programming (2011).
People who know Mr Martyn describe him as a quiet, shy, highly intelligent man who has always had an interest in computers. He has been honoured with awards in the past for his science and technology skills at Calasanctius College, where he completed his Leaving Certificate two years ago. His mother Lisa works in the Claregalway Naíonra and his father, Anthony, is a mechanic. They were described by locals yesterday as a “lovely, decent family”.
All posts were deleted from Mr Martyn’s ‘wall’ on social networking site Facebook on Tuesday night but his lists of activities remain, including ‘Hacking Computers’, ‘Ethical Hacking’ and ‘Lock Picking’. He lists as his employers, ‘Resident Pirate’ at Nyan Cat. There are also pictures uploaded on his Facebook page, apparently showing how to intercept emails and hack websites.
He is reported to have taken to the internet Tuesday night to say he was a “reformed hacker” and that he was “bloody frightened” by the FBI investigation.
The indictment makes accusations that hacking group members:
* Compromised an FBI computer.
* Hacked US security firms HBGary Inc and its affiliate HBGary Federal, and stole confidential data relating to thousands of user accounts.
* Stole confidential data relating to more than 70,000 potential contestants on The X Factor, a Fox television show.
* Attacked the website of US network PBS and stole personal information of 2,000 employees and other individuals before making the information public.
Ryan Ackroyd, 25, from Mexborough, South Yorkshire, appeared in court on charges relating to the Lulzsec hacking of the CIA and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency. He made no plea and will next appear at Southwark Crown court on 11 May. Mr Ackroyd is the last of four alleged members of online activists LulzSec, a spin-off of the loosely organised hacking collective Anonymous, to appear in court in Britain.
The indictment alleges the four individuals plotted together and with others to carry out so-called distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. They were accused of launching DDoS attacks on the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the CIA, News International, Sony, US computer game firm Bethesda, web-based game Eve Online and the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, US. The four are also charged with conspiring to hack into computers operated by the NHS, News International, Sony, Nintendo, film studio 20th Century Fox, US public broadcaster PBS, and US computer security organisations HBGary, Black & Berg and Infraguard.
Jake Davis, an 18-year old man suspected of being "Topiary" was arrested in the Shetland Islands on July 27, 2011. On July 31, 2011, the man was charged with five offences including unauthorised computer access and conspiracy to carry out a distributed denial of service attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency's website. Scotland Yard later identified the man arrested as Yell, Shetland resident Jake Davis. He was charged with unauthorized access of a computer under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, encouraging or assisting criminal activity under the Serious Crime Act 2007, conspiracy to launch a denial-of-service attack against the Serious Organised Crime Unit contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977, and criminal conspiracy also under the Criminal Law Act 1977.
Police confiscated a Dell laptop and a 100-gigabyte hard drive that had 16 different virtual machines. The hard drive also contained details relating to an attack on Sony and hundreds of thousands of email addresses and passwords were found on the computer. A London court released Davis on bail under the conditions that he live under curfew with his mother and have no access to the Internet. His lawyer Gideon Cammerman stated that, while his client did help publicize LulzSec and Anonymous attacks, he lacks the technical skills to have been anything but a sympathizer.
Glenn Mangham, 26, admitted to infiltrating the website between April and May of last year. Apparently no user details were taken, as he went straight for “invaluable” intellectual property instead. Facebook alerted the authorities last May after they discovered the breach. The FBI took care of the rest, tracing it all back to the UK address. He found his way in by hacking into the account of a Facebook employee.
Facebook operates a bug bounty program in which it pays ethical hackers up to $US 500 for quietly disclosing vulnerabilities. According to reports of Mangham's court appearances, the software development student claimed to have been an ethical hacker who had previously breached Yahoo's system as a service to that company.
mobman was the original author of Subseven RAT. He then teamed up with read101, fc , SubZ , cosmic and Sub7Crew for the next release of the said RAT. Sub7, or SubSeven or Sub7Server, is the name of a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) program. Its name was derived by spelling NetBus backwards ("suBteN") and swapping "ten" with "seven".
Due to mobman being known as Romanian (several reverences in the original program and historical accounts indicate this) and Hanis' seemingly lack of knowledge about sub7, it is suspected that he is not the real mobman - and actually a poser. He was first publicly outed by illwill on illmob.org with an article entitled, "Who is the real mobman?"
In 1999, when Hanis was 19, after getting pissed at AT&T for refusing to fix his overcharged cellphone bill, he hacked into the company to change it himself. After pleading to a charge of “modification of intellectual property,” Hanis spent seven months in jail awaiting trial before receiving five years' probation – and then spent months living on the streets after his mom refused to take him back in. The experience left him changed and determined to put his skills to good use.