Name: The 10 Most NOTORIOUS HACKERS of All Time!
Uploaded: 2017-02-16T00:05:27.000Z
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So hacking has been a popular topic for a long time.

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with the internet's recent Heartbleed vulnerability

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

The first kind are called "white hat" hackers,

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.

that have ever lived to share with you guys.

Kevin Mitnick is considered the poster child

the most wanted cyber criminal in the world.

that escalated into a two and a half year

of dollars of corporate secrets from IBM,

and even the National Defense Warning System.

He was caught and jailed twice for his crimes

but is now a computer security consultant

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.

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

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.

and was forced to give back the 10.7 million he stole

although 400,000 of it was never recovered.

an anonymous hacker group came out claiming

that they were the ones truly responsible for the theft,

Unless you're a Russian hacker supervillian

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

but officials thought they might have also

hacked into North Korean systems as well.

very high tensions between the two countries at the time

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.

these douches have the unique distinction

of saying that they almost started a war.

was a distributive denial of service attack

He was caught after bragging about the attacks

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

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

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

Bank of America, CitiGroup, the New York Times,

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