ALBERT GONZALEZ

Name : Albert Gonzalez

 Nickname :  The leader of a hacker group known as Shadow Crew

 Case :

He collected over 170 million credit card and ATM card numbers over a period of 2 years

This group would go on to steal 1.5 million credit card numbers and sell them online for profit. Shadow Crew also fabricated fraudulent passports, health insurance cards, and birth certificates for identity theft crimes totaling $4.3 million stolen.The big bucks wouldn’t come until later, when Gonzalez hacked into the databases of TJX Companies and Heartland Payment Systems for their stored credit card numbers.

What happen to them :

 Gonzalez was sentenced to prison for

20 years (2 sentences of 20 years to be served out simultaneously).

KEVIN MITNICK

Name : Kevin mitnick

Nickname : U.S. Department of Justice called him the “most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history.”

Case :

After serving a year in prison

for hacking into the Digital Equipment

Corporation’s network, he was let out for 3

years of supervised release. Near the end of

that period, however, he fled and went on a 2.5-year hacking spree that involved

breaching the national defense warning system and stealing corporate secrets.

What happen to them :

 Mitnick was eventually caught and convicted, ending with a 5-year prison

sentence. After serving those years fully, he became a consultant and public

speaker for computer security. He now runs Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC

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.