Georg Avanesov is a Russian citizen who was given a four-year prison sentence in Armenia in the year 2010 for creating and distributing the Bredolab botnet and malware. Bredolab is a a botnet that infected an estimated 3 million PCs per month through virus-laden e-mails and booby-trapped Web sites. Avanesov developed Bredolab in Armenia around March 2009 and used computer servers in Holland and France to spread the virus.
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.
icesurfer is a coder who claims to break things for a living . He is the developer of sqlninja, a sql injection tool for web applications that use Microsoft SQL Server as its back-end though it runs only in Linux, Mac and BSD. It requires perl modules; NetPacket, Net-Pcap, Net-DNS, Net-RawIP, and IO-Socket-SSL.
Wang Lei a.k.a y0c0 smart is from China and a self-proclaimed super hacker and a Free-Dance Zealot in the Night. He is the admin of the Silic Group Hacker Army and owns http://www.blackbap.com/, the Computer the Archive Database of their group.
Roy Castillo is a Filipino computer programmer from Danao City, Cebu who graduated from Informatics Computer Institute SM Branch. He discovered a bug in Facebook which allows him to took advantage of a cross site scripting vulnerability (XSS) that allows outsiders to add script to Web pages. His status "Off to Danao City" swarmed some Facebook users because it couldn’t be deleted, and Roy couldn’t be blocked — because he wasn't in the friends lists of the profiles on which he appeared. Some said they tried deactivating and reactivating their Facebook accounts to get rid of him — it worked for one commenter, but not for others.
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 Martin Gomez is a member of the Dradis Framework Core Team and founder of Security Roots Ltd, a software development house focused on creating products and services tailored to security specialists. He blogs at usefulfor.com and at nomejortu.com/etd/. He can also be found on Twitter as @etdsoft.
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.
Born to a poor family in Lucena City in the southern Philippines, Eyestrain first tapped a keyboard when he was 12 when his school had just received its first computer, and it was love at first byte. He went to Manila, Philippines at age 17 to attend Systems Technology Institute, a technical college that offers low-cost programming courses. The classes were disappointing: he found that he knew more than his teachers and was exempted from most programming classes.
He was featured in the Time Magazine before and is a former member and spokesperson of an underground group in the Philippines called 'Locusts.org' and the National Bureau of Investigation's (NBI) Anti-Fraud and Computer Crimes Division (AFCCD) have evidences linking to the said group to numerous computer crimes. His group has allegedly been involved in using stolen credit card numbers, website defacements, launching of viruses, and other computer crimes, which is now punishable in the Philippines under the E-Commerce Law.
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.