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.