Famous Hackers

Jonathan James

Jonathan James was an American hacker, illfamous as the first juvenile sent to prison for cybercrime in United States. He committed suicide in 2008 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  

In 1999, at the age of 16, he gained access to several computers by breaking the password of a server that belonged to NASA and stole the source code of the International Space Station among other sensitive information. 

Ian Murphy

Ian Murphy, also known as Captain Zap, at one point of time was having high school students steal computer equipment for him. Ian selfproclaims to have been "the first hacker ever convicted of a crime".  

Ian's career as a master hacker was fabricated in 1986 after he and his unemployed wife decided to form some type of business.  

He has a long history of computer and Internet frauds. One of his favourite games is to forge Email headers and to send out third-party threat letters. 

Robert Morris 

Robert Morris, known as the creator of the Morris Worm, the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet. The worm had the capability to slow down computers and make them no longer usable. As a result of this, he was sentenced to three years’ probation, 400 hours of community service and also had to pay a penalty amount of $10,500.  

Morris is currently working as a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory