In the olden days bandits used to be the most wanted people in the world
but today the easiest way to steal and wreak havoc is to do it using the internet
that's why today many of the most wanted people by the fbi are hackers a lot of the most prolific
hackers of all time have been caught by the fbi but how did they do it from an unemployed
man who hacked into the most powerful people in the world and released their private photographs
to a man who hacked billions from banks and gave it all away to charity
marcella hell marcel lazar lehel is better known as guccifer this was his hacking nickname he is
a romanian man from a very poor village in the daytime he was an unemployed taxi driver but what
his friends and family didn't know was that at night he was one of the most feared hackers in the
world he hacked into the emails of the bush family he was able to get into many bush family aol
yahoo flickr and facebook accounts and this also gave him access to information on very high level
government officials his nickname guccifer was a mix of gucci and lucifer which is another word
for satan he had no fancy skills or equipment he used a clunky nec desktop and a samsung cell phone
and he simply learned to hack by himself using the internet guccifer also hacked into colin powell's
website and email he also hacked fbi agents secret service agents and un officials he also hacked
many members of the rockefeller family one of the richest families in the world in 2014 the romanian
police and the fbi teamed up and tracked him down he already had a police record for hacking
in 2011. when he was arrested he claimed that the world was run by a small group of secret societies
in march of 2016 he was extradited to the usa and ever since then he's been held at a jail in
virginia charlton float if you hack something then the fbi is likely going to want to track you down
however there's so much hacking going on they probably won't but if you hack the fbi's very
own website then they'll definitely track you down believe it or not though that's actually what one
uk teenager did in 2013. charlton float hacked the fbi and the home office website this prevented the
reporting of crimes on the fbi's website for more than five hours the fbi and the computer crimes
unit in the uk tracked him down the fbi wanted him extradited to the usa but this was denied
instead he was given an eight-month jail sentence and he was also ordered to do 250
hours unpaid work a psychologist said charlton had a strong sense of wanting to be famous and receive
kudos for his hacking people were stunned that a 17 year old could hack into one of the richest
and most powerful organizations in the world after all the fbi's budget is nearly 10 billion
annually but a british teenager in his bedroom was able to take down their website
twitter hackers on july 15 2020 the biggest bitcoin scam ever took place this happened
on twitter after hackers were able to get control of twitter's admin panel 130 high-profile twitter
accounts were compromised this included apple joe biden barack obama elon musk
bill gates jeff bezos and even uber kanye west was also hacked and they all posted the same message
they said that if you sent them one thousand dollars in bitcoin they would send you back
two thousand dollars you may think that no one would actually fall for this but many did
the hackers made off with around four hundred thousand dollars the fbi and the us department of
justice instantly got to work investigating but it turned out the media was much more useful reuters
was able to find out that the hackers were from the og users forum this is a forum where people
buy and sell usernames later on the hackers even gave an interview to the new york times
then just hours later the fbi arrested graham ivan clarke this was a 17 year old from florida usa
some also claimed that a 21 year old british hacker named joseph o'connor was behind the hack
but he told the new york times that he had no involvement hamza bendalaj hamza ben dalaj is from
algeria in 2009 when he was 20 he began hacking into banks hamza said that he used the money to
fund a life of luxury for years the fbi wanted him for stealing millions of dollars from u.s banks
it was said that he hacked into more than 217 bank accounts but believe it or not many people
actually support hamza the fbi said he spent the money he stole on a luxurious life they said he
traveled first class and stayed in luxury places but others claimed that he donated 280 million
dollars to ngos in africa many online posts sprung up calling him a hero for his donations
he was finally arrested in 2013 when he landed at a thai airport the fbi and the thai police were
able to arrest him when he landed he was led away smiling as if he knew that what he did was right
it's believed that he also hacked into foreign ministries of various european countries this was
to grant visas to several algerian youths he was nicknamed the happy hacker by the media because of
his radiant smile when he was arrested bertie now faces a 65-year prison sentence and a 14
million dollar fine but if he really did give hundreds of millions to charities does that make
his hacks okay or not a lot of people really dislike big banks but they like helping people
so do you think kamza should be let off or is stealing wrong no matter what albert gonzalez
albert gonzalez grew up in new york he didn't have much money when he was younger so that's why when
he was in high school he began hacking into banks he later sold this bank information on the website
shadowcrew.com but eventually the fbi caught up with him and he was arrested
but rather than making him stop they said he had to become an informant to avoid
jail time so that's when he became an asset for the fbi ultimately albert helped to
indict dozens of shadow crew members while he was a paid informant albert stole more than
million dollars this was from payment card accounts and also companies amazingly he used
very basic sql to do most of the hacking it's believed that when he was actively hacking he
stole more than 256 million dollars from tjx alone even though he worked for the fbi as an
asset he was still sentenced to 20 years in jail he is currently scheduled for release in 2025.
michael cools michael couls is better known as his nickname mafia boy when he was 15 he
discovered how to hack his university computers he then simply did the same thing on a larger
scale one week later he brought down dill ebay cnn and amazon he did this using a distributed denial
of service also known as a ddos this overwhelmed the servers of the website causing them to crash
he realized that if the biggest websites in the world valued at over one billion dollars could
be hacked so easily then no one is safe eventually finding michael became a top priority for the fbi
and when he was arrested this led to the development of lots of cyber crime legislation
anonymous of course anonymous is a loose group which anyone can join it started in 2003 on the
4chan message boards but in 2011 the biggest arrest of anonymous hackers happened 16 people
had their homes raided across the u.s and were arrested this was for hacking various websites
for example the church of scientology jeans and james and shetter jeansen is unlike most of the
other hackers in this video instead of actually hacking into things he was more interested in
using bots these are basically robots that can infect and take control of computer systems using
a botnet he was able to compromise nearly half a million pcs in 2005. he then rented these pcs to
advertising companies and he was paid to install bots and adware on the systems he was eventually
arrested by the fbi and sentenced to 57 months in prison this was the first time a hacker had
been sent to jail for using botnet technology gary mckinnon in 2002 this scottish man did the biggest
military computer hack of all time he was able to hack into the u.s military and also nasa computers
he shut down more than 2 000 of their computers for 24 hours and he also posted a note on the
military's website saying your security is rubbish he was looking for evidence of
free energy and ufos but apparently he found nothing he also deleted hundreds of missile logs
it was said he caused more than seven hundred thousand dollars worth of damage and amazingly
he actually got away with doing this the fbi and cia wanted to extradite him to the usa but this
was blocked by the uk where he lives today now it's time to make your voice heard comment below
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