Famous hacker attacks - Hackers Lulz Security have launched an attack on the CIA website after targeting Sony and PBS. Here are some other audacious hacking attacks:
1. In 1990 teenager Kevin Poulsen hacked the phone lines of the Kiss FM radio station in Los Angeles to become the 102nd winning caller on the station’s “Win a Porsche By Friday” contest. He also allegedly used his hacking skills to wiretap a Hollywood actress and hack into Army and FBI computers. He was eventually charged by the FBI with a series of fraud and laundering offences and was sentenced to 51 months in prison. Today he works as a journalist for Wired.com.
Anonymous protestors outside the Church of Scientology's headquarters in London
2. Jonathan James is one of the most famous hackers of all time. In 1999, he broke into military computers at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and intercepted thousands of confidential messages, log-in information, and $1.7 million worth of software that controlled the living environment on the International Space Station. The breach led NASA to shutdown their network for three weeks, costing thousands of dollars in security upgrades. His story has a tragic twist. In 2007 he committed suicide.
3. In 2000 a teenage boy carried out the first major distributed-denial of service attack (DDoS) responsible for crippling some of the internet’s most popular websites. Canadian Michael Calce, 15, made a name for himself with Project Rivolta which took down the website of the £1 search engine at the time - and second-most popular website - Yahoo. He went on to attack the servers of CNN, eBay, Dell, and Amazon. He was ultimately arrested and spent eight months in a juvenile detention centre.
4. Before he became famous for being the hacker that Bradley Manning confessed to over his role in the Wikileaks cables affair, Adrian Lamo was better known for hacking into the servers of companies like the New York Times. Known as “the homeless hacker”, he accessed the New York Times database in 2002, adding himself to the list of Op-Ed writers and spending hours trawling Lexis-Nexis for mentions of himself. He was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay $65,000.
5. In 2008 the group Anonymous gained worldwide press for Project Chanology, an online protest against the Church of Scientology. Accusing the church of internet censorship, after it launched a copyright violation claim against YouTube over a leaked video of Tom Cruise, Anonymous members of Project Chanology organised a series of denial-of-service attacks against Scientology websites, prank calls, and black faxes to Scientology centres. The group later posted a video on YouTube entitled “Message to Scientology,” and a press release declaring a “War on Scientology”. In the press release, the group states that the attacks against the Church of Scientology will continue in order to protect the right to freedom of speech, and end what they believe to be the financial exploitation of church members. ( telegraph.co.uk )
1. In 1990 teenager Kevin Poulsen hacked the phone lines of the Kiss FM radio station in Los Angeles to become the 102nd winning caller on the station’s “Win a Porsche By Friday” contest. He also allegedly used his hacking skills to wiretap a Hollywood actress and hack into Army and FBI computers. He was eventually charged by the FBI with a series of fraud and laundering offences and was sentenced to 51 months in prison. Today he works as a journalist for Wired.com.
Anonymous protestors outside the Church of Scientology's headquarters in London
2. Jonathan James is one of the most famous hackers of all time. In 1999, he broke into military computers at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and intercepted thousands of confidential messages, log-in information, and $1.7 million worth of software that controlled the living environment on the International Space Station. The breach led NASA to shutdown their network for three weeks, costing thousands of dollars in security upgrades. His story has a tragic twist. In 2007 he committed suicide.
3. In 2000 a teenage boy carried out the first major distributed-denial of service attack (DDoS) responsible for crippling some of the internet’s most popular websites. Canadian Michael Calce, 15, made a name for himself with Project Rivolta which took down the website of the £1 search engine at the time - and second-most popular website - Yahoo. He went on to attack the servers of CNN, eBay, Dell, and Amazon. He was ultimately arrested and spent eight months in a juvenile detention centre.
4. Before he became famous for being the hacker that Bradley Manning confessed to over his role in the Wikileaks cables affair, Adrian Lamo was better known for hacking into the servers of companies like the New York Times. Known as “the homeless hacker”, he accessed the New York Times database in 2002, adding himself to the list of Op-Ed writers and spending hours trawling Lexis-Nexis for mentions of himself. He was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay $65,000.
5. In 2008 the group Anonymous gained worldwide press for Project Chanology, an online protest against the Church of Scientology. Accusing the church of internet censorship, after it launched a copyright violation claim against YouTube over a leaked video of Tom Cruise, Anonymous members of Project Chanology organised a series of denial-of-service attacks against Scientology websites, prank calls, and black faxes to Scientology centres. The group later posted a video on YouTube entitled “Message to Scientology,” and a press release declaring a “War on Scientology”. In the press release, the group states that the attacks against the Church of Scientology will continue in order to protect the right to freedom of speech, and end what they believe to be the financial exploitation of church members. ( telegraph.co.uk )
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