1nternal is a programmer and virus coder from Brisbane, Australia. He is best known as the creator of the first MS Office virus (one that can infect more than one type of Office file) Triplicate as well as one that can infect Office files, HTML and VBS files, Cross.
Spanska is a French programmer and virus coder associated with the 29A group. Spanska was fascinated with viruses from the time he heard of the Brain virus in 1986, though his first virus was made about 10 years later. He owned a TI99/4A and a Commodore 64, and did not have his own 386 computer until he pulled one out of the trash at work in 1996. Spanska rarely associated with VX groups, but did do some work with 29A.
tiago aka module is a member of Teletubbies (not the TV show) group and has been profiled by Phrack (not every hacker ends in that ezine).
ParMaster is the Sysop/Co-Sysop of DarkF0RCE who during his time belonged to a group of teenagers involved in breaking the copy protections on software programs for Apple IIe's, particularly games. Par had a special gift for working out the copy protection parameters, which was a first step in bypassing the manufacturers' protection schemes.
The US Secret Service raided him in 1991 and took all his stuff (the 3rd time) including the credit reports of the President (iffie) and Vice President
(definitely) of the United States of America. He was in jail in New York waiting for transport, and was never really threatened or hurt, except once and it was a major incident for him but doesn't think it was influenced by anyone.
Janit0r is the author of Brickerbot. His botnet Brickerbot, is a botnet and malware that bricks unsecured gadgets or IoT devices like cameras, lightbulbs, TVs, and thousands more. He considers his project a form of "Internet Chemotherapy" and sometimes jokingly think of himself as The Doctor.
Roman Valerevich Seleznev Роман Валерьевич Селезнев (b. 1984) (also known by his hacker handle Track2) is a Russian computer hacker. He was indicted in Washington in 2011, and has been convicted of hacking into servers to steal credit card data. Seleznev's activities have been speculated to have caused damages to banks and credit card companies ranging in the millions of dollars. Seleznev was arrested in July 5, 2014 and was sentenced to 27 years in prison for counts of wire fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and identity theft.
He began his activities in early 2003 on the credit card fraud site CarderPlanet, providing paid Social Security numbers and criminal-history research using (among others) stolen LexisNexis accurint.com accounts. Seleznev's employee later created a scanner which allowed a user to scan the internet for MSRDP open ports (3389 by default). Default configurations provided poor protection at the time, and many administrator accounts were not secured by passwords. Exploiting this vulnerability, Seleznev and his partner accessed many remote computers, including those with financial and credit-card data.
He contacted BadB, another hacker, to gain more experience in exploiting financial systems. BadB, a cybercriminal identified in 2009 as Vladislav Horohorin, provided Seleznev with an automated script to look for credit card traces in systems and networks. With this script, Seleznev obtained his first credit-card dumps, which he resold to Horohorin. He became dissatisfied with Horohorin, and decided to begin his own credit-card-dump operation using the nickname nCuX (from Russian: псих, "psycho").
Seleznev expanded his operations in 2008 from scanning MSRDP with default (or no) passwords to developing sophisticated malware which could intercept network traffic and search network shares, distributing it through flaws in Internet browsers by injecting malicious code into advertising traffic. He infected many computers, primarily in the United States.
Seleznev's father, a member of Russia's parliament and an ally of president Vladimir Putin, denounced the arrest as a kidnapping and claimed the charges against his son were "a monstrous lie." But Seleznev himself wrote a letter to the court confessing to his hacking and describing his impoverished early life and his mother's death from alcoholism and thanking the officials who arrested him for saving him from a potentially deadly life.
stackoverflowin (@lmaostack) is a blackhat who in the 1st week of February 2017, hacked more than 150,000 printers, having them print various messages including the following:
"stackoverflowin the hacker god has returned, your printer is part of a flaming botnet, operating on putin’s forehead utilising BTI’s (break the internet) complete infrastructure."
"stackoverflowin has returned to his glory, your printer is part of a botnet, the god has returned, everyone likes a meme, fix your bullsh*t."
"stackoverflowin/stack the almighty, hacker god has returned to his throne, as the greatest memegod. Your printer is part of a flaming botnet."
According to stackoverflowin he is doing this to raise awareness about the pitiful state of printer security.
Cameron Lacroix aka camo, cam0, camZero, cmuNNY was the one who stole and hacked nude photos from Paris Hilton’s cellphone when he was still a teenager. He has also been convicted federally of aggravated identity fraud, computer fraud, wire fraud, and making a false bomb threat. LaCroix was previously held at MCI Concord and Old Colony Correctional Center. He was released on February 4, 2011 according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Paul Biteng is a Filipino bug bounty hunter who was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation for defacing and compromising the website of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Philippines. He has also participated in defacing government websites in the Philippines prior to the Comelec hacking.
Bill Landreth (born 1964) is a former American teen hacker notable for his cracking activities during the early 1980s within an exclusive cracking club called "The Inner Circle", and subsequent 1986 disappearance (from which he re-appeared a year later). He was convicted in federal court in 1984 of breaking into some computer systems in the United States, including GTE Telemail's electronic mail network where he peeped at NASA and Defense Department computer correspondence. He is the author of the book "Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security" which was published in 1986.