JONATHAN JAMES a.k.a COMRADE

Name : Jonathan James

Nickname : Comrade

Case :

·         He was convicted and send to prison for hacking in the united states.

·         managed to hack into a number of networks, including those belonging to Bell South,    Miami-Dade, the U.S. Department of Defense, and NASA.

·         James hacked into NASA’s network and downloaded enough source code

to learn how the International Space Station worked. The total value of the downloaded assets equaled $1.7 million. To add insult to injury, NASA had to shut down their network for three whole weeks while they investigated the breach, which cost them $41,000.

What happen to them :

However. In 2007, a number of high profile

companies fell victim to a massive wave of malicious network attacks. Even

though James denied any involvement, he was suspected and investigated. In

2008, James committed suicide, believing he would be convicted of crimes that

he did not commit.