So hacking has been a popular topic for a long time.

Especially in the last few weeks

with the internet's recent Heartbleed vulnerability

that left millions of people's information open to hackers.

But many people don't know that there

are actually two types of hackers.

The first kind are called "white hat" hackers,

which are the ones that are ethical

and do things like diagnose security flaws.

But the second kind are called "black hat" hackers,

and those are the ones that commit cyber crimes

for financial gain, or just to cause major damage

for the lolz, and that's the group that this video is about.

So this week I gathered the smartest,

and most desctructive Black hat hackers

that have ever lived to share with you guys.

So here they are:

Kevin Mitnick is considered the poster child

of computer hacking and was once

the most wanted cyber criminal in the world.

He had an obsession with computers

that escalated into a two and a half year

hacking spree where he stole millions

of dollars of corporate secrets from IBM,

Motorola, telephone companies,

and even the National Defense Warning System.

He was caught and jailed twice for his crimes

but is now a computer security consultant

and published author.

Interestingly, he always preferred the term

"social engineer" over hacker which is weird

because let's just call it what it is, he was a hacker.

That's like calling a cannibal

an "intraspecies diner" ...yeah, it doesn't work.

Vladimir Levin was a Russian hacker

of genius proportions.

In 1994, while working with a dial up connection

and a laptop from his St. Petersburg apartment,

he accessed the accounts of several large

corporate customers of Citibank, stealing $10.7 million.

He ended up spending three years in jail

after his accomplices gave up his name

and was forced to give back the 10.7 million he stole

although 400,000 of it was never recovered.

However, oddly a decade later in 2005,

an anonymous hacker group came out claiming

that they were the ones truly responsible for the theft,

and that they only sold Vladimir

the data needed to steal the money.

Well, we may never know the truth

but what we do know is somebody

got away with $400,000.

Just remember kids, crime doesn't pay.

Unless you're a Russian hacker supervillian

in which case it apparently does.

In 1996, Mathew Bevan and Richard Pryce

were only 21 and 17, respectively,

when they broke into military computers

with a really nefarious intent.

They not only hacked into U.S. military computers,

but officials thought they might have also

hacked into North Korean systems as well.

This was especially bad since there were

very high tensions between the two countries at the time

and an intrusion from the U.S.

could have been considered and act of war.

Now luckily, as it turns out it was just South Korean data

but it just as easily could have been North.

You know, unlike regular hackers

that just steal money or create viruses,

these douches have the unique distinction

of saying that they almost started a war.

Yeah, not exactly the type of thing

you want to put on a resume.

Also known by his hacker alias, Mafiaboy

Michael Calce was a Canadian from Quebec

that was responsible for a series

of high profile cyber attacks in 2000.

Project Revolt, as he called it,

was a distributive denial of service attack

that took down major websites

like Yahoo, FIFA, Amazon, eBay,

and CNN among others.

He was caught after bragging about the attacks

in an IRC chat room for which he got eight months in jail

Why such a short sentence?

Because suprisingly Michael was only

in high school at the time.

Also, because he probably said,

"Sorry, sorry, oh so sorry, didn't mean to hack 'em

eh, sorry" through the whole trial.

He's Canadian, we're very apologetic people.

Adrian Lamo is best known for hacking

into major corporations like Yahoo,

Bank of America, CitiGroup, the New York Times,

and Microsoft.

But it's the way that he did it

that made him famous.

He used public internet connections

like those found at libraries, and coffee shops

to hack into these major sites.

Because of that and his modest lifestyle,

he was given the nickname of Homeless Hacker.

In 2004, after being caught,

he was given six months house arrest

and ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution.

Well I guess if there's a silver lining to the story

it's that somebody actually used a library.

I mean who the hell uses libraries anymore?

It's 2014, if you need to learn something

you just Google it.

Jeanson James Ancheta was the first ever hacker

to create a botnet, a goup of highjacked

computers that worked together for illegal means.

In 2004, Ancheta spread a worm

called the RXbot across the Internet

that gave him control of 500,000 computers

including US military computers.

He used that network to wreak havoc

on websites, shutting them down

and even accepted payments from clients

to shut down specific websites.

And that worked well for him

until one of the clients ended up

being an FBI sting operation.

He was forced to give up his BMW

and $58,000 that he earned from hacking

and was ordered to pay $16,000

and server 60 months in prison.

How ironic, this guy forcibly gave

a lot of people a worm

and now he's going to jail

where a lot of guys are going to forcibly

give him their worm.

Know what I'm sayin'?

Ya know what I'm sayin'?

Gary McKinnon is the Scottish hacker

who masterminded the largest military

computer hack of all time.

Using the hacker alias, Solo

he hacked into 97 US Armed Forces

and NASA computers between 2001 and 2002.

Within a period of just 24 hours,

he deleted critical files including weapon logs,

crashed a network of 2,000 computers,

stole passwords, and copied files.

In total, the damage that his hacking caused

cost the government an estimated $700,000

for which he was indicted by a US court.

However, in 2012, it was decided

that he will not face charges in the UK,

nor be extradited to the US to face charges their either.

So in other words, he got away with it scot-free.

Damn, that's a dangerous precedent

you just set UK, if I were you I'd expect

an influx of hackers emigrating to your country.

Better stock up on Mountain Dew and Hot Pockets.

Owen Walker also known by his hacker alias, AKILL

was only 17 when he led an international

hacking group that caused over $26 million in damages.

The home schooled teenager was responsible

for creating the Akbot virus, which spread to 1.3 million

computers around the world crashing them.

But the suprising thing is

that even though he was caught,

despite all of the damage,

he was released without being convicted.

It was ruled that conviction would do

more harm to his future than do good.

Today Owen works for a telecommunications

company in their security division.

See parents, you should home school your kids

they always turn out well adjusted.

The hacker named ASTRA,

whose real name was never revealed,

was a 58 year old Greek mathematician

who was operative between 2002 and 2008.

During that five year period,

he stole weapons technology data

and 3D modeling software from

a company called the Dassault Group,

which he sold for up to $361 million

to buyers around the world.

Dassault being just a bit ticked off by the theft,

went on a worldwide manhunt for ASTRA

which ended in tracking him down

to an apartment in Athens, Greece.

This is a really cool story

but I don't understand why they

won't just say his name.

I mean, who is this guy? Voldemort?

Wizards be hacking and sh--

It's messed up. And finally,

Of all the hackers on this list,

Albert Gonzalez may have pulled off the largest heist.

Over a two year period he stole a total

of 175 million credit card numbers selling them online.

A massive, yet undisclosed, amount of money

was stolen from his victims through identity theft,

leaving them to battle to restore their credit ratings

and get their money back.

He was sentenced to 40 years in jail

and I say good he deserves it.

My credit card information was

stolen once and I was pissed.

Not because they spent my money,

but because I had to call Visa and explain

to them that it wasn't me that spent

$200 at a men's hair care website.

It was an awkward conversation

Anyways, that's all for this video guys.

Keep in mind that this was not an exhaustive list.

There were a lot more hackers out there

that have done a lot more stuff.

I just chose the ones that I thought

were the most interesting cases.

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