Years ago the most feared criminals would be bankrupt
but today a kid can steal a bank vault's worth of money sitting in his bedroom
that is if he has the right hacking skills some hackers have stolen millions
of dollars caused chaos and even changed the world
but how did they do it and how did the fbi track them down and catch them
twitter hackers
on the 31st of july 2020 twitter went into total meltdown
all of a sudden it seemed like every big twitter account was being hacked
many huge accounts for example former president barack obama were hacked and
it's thought all of the hacked tweets reached around 2 billion people all of
the tweets said this same message i'm giving back to my community due to
covert 19. all bitcoin sent my address will be sent back
doubled if you send back a thousand dollars i'll send back 2 000.
they included a bitcoin wallet address and said only doing this for the next 30
minutes enjoy on the surface this may seem like
a pretty clear scam but because it came from many very
trusted and rich people many believed it i traced the bitcoin wallet address and
found they made over a hundred thousand dollars
so who was behind this massive hack which affected elon musk
jeff bezos and apple well on the 1st of august
graeme ivan clark a 17 year old was arrested in tampa florida
the fbi said that he was the mastermind behind the massive hack
the fbi also announced charges against two co-conspirators
this included a 19 year old from the uk named mason shepard
and also 22 year old nima fazeli from florida
so how were they caught well for one they did an interview with the new york
times before getting caught this likely did not help them stay
anonymous they also traced various financial payments to the hackers
so kind of like with al capone it was the irs which caused them to go to
prison commander by now everyone knows the
hacking group anonymous many people like them as they hack for
good but governments do not they're decentralized meaning they don't
have an official leader but there is an unofficial leader known as
commander x his real name is christopher doyle he's been on the run
from the fbi for more than one year he has a twitter account where he mocks
those trying to catch him and last year he even released a book
all about his life he detailed how he began hacking with the group anonymous
he soon rose through the ranks on hacking forums and became their de facto
leader commander x is famous for hacking the
government website of santa cruz this was in protest to santa cruz's
treatment of the homeless also when there were protests in egypt
he hacked the egyptian government he stole all of the files relating to
the population and this meant that the government could
not arrest any protesters when he was doing this he was actually
homeless at the time he used a san francisco coffee shop to do his work in
and at night he would sleep in the alleyway behind it
last year though the fbi said they wanted him in prison for 15 years
so that's why he escaped to canada where he lives today
gary mckinnon gary mckinnon looks like an average guy he's a 54 year old man
from scotland but in 2002 he was accused of
perpetrating the biggest military computer hack of all time
gary was actually looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a
cover-up of ufo activity he believes the public have the right to
know about ufos and aliens little did he know that in 2020 the us
army would confirm ufos but back in 2002 he found nothing from
the hack he was able to get into 97 us military
and nasa computers he did this in his girlfriend's aunt's
house in london using the nickname solo he deleted many critical files from
the military's operating systems this shut down 2000 us military
computers for one whole day he also posted a nice message on the military's
website your security is rubbish the fbi said the hack cost seven
hundred thousand dollars for them to fix but although he was found out he never
actually went to prison the uk blocked his extradition to the
usa and to this day he's never seen one day behind bars
hector monsiger hector monsiger is the founder of the hacking group
lulzsec he was raised by his grandmother in a poor neighborhood
in new york city from an early age he knew that he would have to start making
some money that's why he learned hacking and began
stealing credit card data but as he got older and more experienced
he began doing bigger and bigger hacks he hacked into the website of the
tunisian prime minister he did this to support protests which were going on in
the country hector also hacked into news corporation one of the largest
media companies in the world he did all of his hacking under the pseudo name
sabu but eventually he was identified by the anti-hacking company batrace
security his luck then ran out when he decided to
hack the fbi's website the fbi knocked on his door the next day
and said they knew he was behind thousands of hacks he was going to be
sentenced to 124 years in prison so to avoid this hector became an fbi
informant so far he's prevented around 400 hacks
these include hacks to the us government military and nasa kevin mitsnick
kevin mitnick may have carried out the most dangerous computer hack in history
that is because he nearly caused world war iii
in 1989 he hacked norad this is the north american defense command
he was able to get into top secret missile defense systems
and his hack was the basis for the 1980s movie war games
eventually he was caught by the fbi he spent five years in prison
eight months of which were in solitary confinement but later on he
changed his ways he's now a computer security consultant
but it's a good thing this guy wasn't too evil otherwise he could have
literally launched nuclear missiles marcus hutchins for many years marcus
hutchins did lots of hacks but ironically he was only ever caught
after he stopped someone else from hacking thousands of people
he created some software which enabled him to steal passwords of internet users
he then quit school and began offering his services on the dark web he
developed software which stole banking data from thousands of people
but he was caught after he stopped the wannacry virus
this was a virus which the us government says came from north korea it locked
hundreds of thousands out of their files and affected many businesses including
hospitals in the uk and around the world marcus hacked wannacry and disabled the
virus but this put him in the spotlight and he
was arrested for his earlier crimes his trial went on for many years and
marcus thought he would be spending life in prison
but instead the judge cleared marcus of all charges
the judge said that while he did do bad things he also
saved the world from a terrible virus it just goes to show even criminals can
have a good side and sometimes being good pays off but
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