Ankit Fadia was born on May 24, 1985 in Coimbatore, India and currently resides in Mumbai, India. He is considered by most Indians as one of best and coolest ethical hacker in India but he is actually mirrored with a lot of controversies and considered by security experts in India as Fake. The website Attrition.org has a detailed page disclosing most of the claims made by Fadia. He runs an over-hyped Ethical Hacking certification in India named after him which is 'Ankit Fadia Certified Ethical Hacker'.
Jeremy Hammond (born December 1985) is a political activist from Chicago charged in a criminal complaint with crimes relating to the December 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (Stratfor). He conspired with other members of Anonymous off-shoot AntiSec to breach Stratfor’s emails and steal approximately 60,000 credit card numbers wherein the cc's were used to make over $700,000 in fraudulent charges.
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.
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.
He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and despises dissidents in his country. He claims to be Iranian, but with no ties to the Iranian Cyber Army. Rather, ComodoHacker says he is an individual. Comodohacker was plainspoken about his motivations. “My country should have control over Google, Skype, Yahoo, etc.,” he said by e-mail. “I’m breaking all encryption algorithms and giving power to my country to control all of them.”
Turkguvenligi also known by the name "TG Hacker' hacked some very high profile sites using DNS Hijacking. Sites included, Theregister.co.uk , Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS. He diverted visitors to a page declaring it was “World Hackers Day”. TurkGuvenligi has claimed credit for dozens of similar defacement attacks since late 2008. The targets are always very large domain names and the motive as stated by the TG is "fun." Regardless TG, has defaced some of the Internets largest domains.
Reiluke is a coder from Davao, Philippines who used to write web application scanners, exploiters, and tools, with much of his work still floating in various online forums. He is known for releasing Google SQLi LFI RFI XSS Scanner which can scan with specific domain on common web vulnerabilities and also for making account checkers for Rapidshare, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Live, MSN and Steam accounts.
OussamiO is a Tunisian coder known for creating the Lost Door which is another Remote Administration Tool for Windows, it uses the typical server, server builder, and client backdoor program configuration to allow a remote user, who uses client, to execute arbitrary code on the compromised computer (which runs the server whose behavior can be controlled by the server editor).