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IRL Name: 
Jeanson James Ancheta
Biography: 

Ancheta was the first person to be arrested by FBI agents for running a botnet as a part of 'Operation Bot Roast' in November 2005. On May 9th, 2006 he pleaded guilty to 4 felony charges under United States Code Section 1030: Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers and was sentenced to 5 years in prison, forfeiture of a 1993 BMW and more than $58,000 in profit. In addition he was ordered to pay restitution of $15,000 to the US Federal Government for infecting military computers.

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Mark Kahn

IRL Name: 
Mark Kahn
Biography: 

San Francisco hacker who in 2004 hacked into the computers of Six Flags via the online job applications form, leaving several hundred bogus applications saying 'THIS SITE WAS HACKED' and in the case of one message to his girlfriend 'I love you, Laura.' In December 2008 he was given 5 years probation, asked to pay $4,000 restitution, and his computer use has been legally restricted.

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Rubico10

IRL Name: 
David Kernell
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Tennessee College Student who broke into 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private E-Mail account by guessing the answers to the account's security questions, then changing the password to 'popcorn.' In September 2008, he would post the password onto 4chan.org under his account which was quickly linked to him as he used the same name for his Yahoo E-Mail account. In October 2008 he would be indicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Stored Communications Act. He is to stand trial on May 19th, 2009 and his representation has asked to throw out the charges on the grounds that the crime is only a misdemeanor and not a felony.

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TrainReq, Rockz, h4x

IRL Name: 
Josh Holly
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Residing in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, he broke into an E-Mail account that was used by Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus at one point ([email protected]) and stole 'provocative' pictures of her. He would go on to post the pictures online. In October 20th, 2008 the FBI served him with a search warrant and raided his house. As of February 2009, he has not been arrested or charged for his actions due to lack of evidence.

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Emmanuel Goldstein

IRL Name: 
Eric Corley
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Born in 1959, Emmanuel Goldstein is the founder, editor, and publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. During his time working on the publication, he testified before the US Congress in 1993, lost a legal battle against the MPAA as one of the defendants in Universal VS Reimerdes (Their unsuccessful attempt to squelch DeCSS), was arrested on August 31st 2004 while filming a demonstration against the Republican National Convention for 'disorderly conduct'. (All charges would be dropped in a preliminary hearing.)

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Brian Salcedo

IRL Name: 
Brian Salcedo
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Brian Salcedo was convicted in 2004 of conspiracy to commit wire and computer fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 for accessing a home improvement chain's wireless LAN in an attempt to recover credit card numbers. Salcedo gained access to the computer system used by the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores and installed a program to capture credit numbers used during transactions at the Southfield store. Lowe's monitored the intrusions while six numbers were captured. Although Salcedo did not view the credit card numbers, the government claims that the crime could have caused more than $2.5 million in damages. Salcedo initially was charged with 16 counts of wire fraud and unauthorized intrusion but plead guilty to reduced charges as part of a plea bargain. At the time of his arrest, He was on a grant of probation within the guidelines of the Holmes Youthful Training Act. Salcedo was sentenced to 9 years in prison for his involvement. The government claims that at the time of its imposition, Salcedo's sentence was the longest federal prison sentence ever given to a hacker for a computer intrusion offense. Prior to Salcedo’s sentence, Kevin Mitnick held the record with a 68-month sentence. Salcedo appealed the sentence, arguing that the actual harm done rather than the potential harm done should be used as a factor to determine the length of the sentence. On July 10, 2006 the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the appeal.

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Max Vision, Iceman

IRL Name: 
Max Butler
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Was raised in Meridian, Idaho. Shortly after his parents divorced at 14, he became a part of his local BBS scene and during high school several friends state that he was carrying printouts of hacker zine Phrack and phreaking free phone calls. During his junior year he broke into his high school and vandalized it. In 1991, he would make a physical threat against a ex-girlfriend, be found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, and sentenced to 5 years in prison. Upon being released in 1995, he started a double-life of doing security tests for various corporate clients and breaking into various private networks after hours. In 1998, his attempts to backdoor federal sites whilest fixing a security hole of the BIND name server daemon would eventually backfire when an Air Force Investigator traced him through his pop-up notifications and in 2001 he was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.

After his release in 2002 he started a venture with Christopher Aragon, stealing stolen credit card information from other hackers due to his logic that most of them were "all teeth and no shell." From there he moved on to small banks and credit unions listed on the FDIC's website that were unable to afford high end security and was pulling 'virgin' credit card numbers. In April 2004, he was arrested after using 'suspicious' credit cards at the San Francisco's W Hotel and was sentenced to 3 years probation. He would start his own network to sell credit card information, CardersMarket, shortly after Operation Firewall under the handle Iceman. Shortly afterwards he would infiltrate 4 rival networks and blink their sites out of existance in an successful attempt to become the biggest carder site on the internet.

After this, he would absorb DarkMarket and warned people concerning a sting relating to their site and informed members of CardersMarket that DarkMarket Master Splynter was a federal agent. In November 2006, he declared Iceman's retirement due to fears that the feds were after him and handed control of CardersMarket over to Th3CorruptedOne. Eventually, Jonathan "Zebra" Giannone would give information out concerning him after being busted himself when he sold 21 Bank of America Platinum Card numbers to a federal agent for $600. In September 5th, 2007 he was finally arrested by the secret service after an extended investigation. It is also believed that Th3CorruptedOne was a Secret Service informat who infiltrated CardersMarket which is how they were able to obtain information on the measures Butler used to cover his tracks. Upon checking his hard drive they found approximately 1 million credit card dumps. Currently he is in prison awaiting trial and will most likely face a sentence of 30 years to life.

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mastadogg

IRL Name: 
Thomas Swingler
Biography: 

Thomas Swingler was charged in federal court in New York with trafficking in unlawful access devices for his online business http://www.cablehack.net. The site, still in operation, sells "pre-modded" Motorola Surfboard modems for between $38 and $58 that can be customized by the owner without a cable company's knowledge. Among other things, the user can set their own upload and download rates, and change the MAC address — the unique identifier normally hard-coded into a modem. While known as a bot net script kiddie and a general douchebag among various circles, he gained notoriety when he took things to a new level of stupidity by selling preconfigured modified modems to the FBI. It is also important to note that he was kicked out of SBHacker for "breaking a contract, lying, scamming, juping, being an all-around asshole/douchebag, and crossing some legal boundaries by publicly encouraging theft of service and bragging about his botnets".

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Reiser

IRL Name: 
Hans Thomas Reiser
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Developed the Reiser File system

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AKILL, Snow Whyte, Snow Walker

IRL Name: 
Owen Thor Walker
Biography: 

Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called “Operation Bot Roast II” bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in 2007, responsible for pump’n'dump stock price manipulations through spam, infecting 1.3M computers with malware, further infecting them with spyware earning nearly $40,000 in the process, in between launching a DDoS attack against the University of Pennsylvania, causing an overall damage of over $20M.

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