10 Mastermind Hackers That Outplayed Everyone (even NASA)

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[Music] hackers will they hack your emails phone camera bank account 50 million Facebook users data taken over during a cyber attack online security breach is not a new term in recent years as hackers can break into everything from your Gmail account and your phone camera to election results as the world is getting increasingly digital everything becomes more accessible to hackers so as long as the Internet is a thing hackers are here to stay but some of them outshine others by applying their skills in the most surprising ways in this video we will explore the most extreme hackers and their stories which we assure you will make you rethink the idea of using the same password for several different accounts so before entering the digital underworld press those subscribe and bell buttons so you don't miss any upcoming videos number 10 Kevin Poulsen as harmless as he looks this is Kevin Paulsen one of the most notorious hackers in USA history he under the alias dark Daunte raised some Inferno back in his peak days Polson became notorious back in the 1990s after hacking telephone company computers in order to manipulate the phone lines leading to Los Angeles radio stations so he could be the winning caller in phone in radio contests among the prizes that he got himself this way were $20,000 in cash and a Porsche 944 s2 Cabriolet but it's the hacking into the federal investigation database that really got him into trouble he attracted the authorities attention and had to go into hiding for 18 months after which he got arrested and was sentenced to five years in prison at the time the longest u.s. sentencing for hacking number nine Jorge Potts George Hotz also known as Gio had started building his reputation as a serious hacker he became the first reported person in history to be able to say this this event was so huge that George Hotz was contacted by a millionaire and given an offer that he simply couldn't refuse to trade an unlocked iphone for three new iPhones and a Nissan 350z at the time to buy a new car like this you must have had a spare 28,000 dollars lying around or an unlocked iphone this was only the start for hots because in the following years he hacked the Sony Playstation 3 and got in legal trouble for doing it sues by Sony and in 2015 he picked yet another fight this time with the man himself Elon Musk Potts was offered a position with the multi-million dollar business to develop autopilot software but he declined instead Potts tried achieving this ambition himself number 8 Jonathan James some 15 year-olds play fortnight in their free time while others hack into NASA and the Pentagon just because why not this was the case for Jonathan James who went under the name comrade he was the first juvenile in the USA to be sentenced for computer hacking back in 2000 James intruded on government systems and obtained the source code for the International Space Station this means he got access to the software which was responsible for controlling the physical environment of the station once NASA detected the intrusion they had to shut down their computers for three weeks in order to fix this even though James didn't get away with it one can say that he did them a favor because he revealed huge security flaws as he explained it they lack some serious computer security and the hard part is learning it you can't say that he's wrong since he did all this by using only an old-school Pentium computer number seven kevin Mitnick from the way this guy looks it's almost impolite to say that he's the most wanted computer criminal in United States history as the US Department of Justice once called him kevin Mitnick skills were visible from a very young age at age 13 his entertainment was hacking into phone systems little did he know that some years later he would receive a five-year prison sentence with eight months in a confinement cell law enforcement officers were so afraid of his hacking skills that during his trial the judge was told that he could start a nuclear war by whistling into a payphone Mitnick built such a reputation by breaking into the networks of companies like IBM Nokia and Motorola but today Mitnick is free and no longer feared by these companies in fact chances are they are now his clients because he reinvented himself by switching sides he's also written several books about his wild online days he is no longer a security braking intruder but a white hat hacker who helps companies to solve their security issues number six Xbox Underground gamers will understand when the games good you just have to explore every map in every level of it and then hack into the systems of the company that developed the game right well that's what an international hacker group the Xbox Underground did not only did they intrude on systems of such companies as Activision valve or Epic Games they reportedly broke into Microsoft's Network and stole secret credentials so they could physically walk into the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond USA they got into this place and took 3 not yet released versions of the Xbox one console with them as they themselves explained they were driven by a strong curiosity number 5 Gary McKinnon a Scottish hacker who raised havoc under the name of solo will not be forgiven any time soon by NASA working as a system administrator by day and a hacker at night solo was accused of hacking into 97 NASA computers in the early 2000s not only did he hack into them he found and allegedly deleted critically important data and other files that were stored on these computers your security system is crap I am solo I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels was the message that the hacker left yet once he was caught he was accused of causing 700,000 dollars worth of damage but Gary McKinnon is famous not only for that allegedly what he found in those computers consisted of top-secret information about UFO cover-ups and similar government secrets he managed to reveal all of these while hacking from his girlfriend's aunt's house number four hey Jeanne Oh Oh Cho ah this is something other than what you might think it's the signature of that Texan hacker hey Jeanne Oh Oh Cho ah under the nickname of wormer would leave behind him in systems that he hacked into ironically the same picture would eventually become his own downfall wormer and his hacker buddies formed a group called cabin crew together they hacked into the police and other US law enforcement agencies online databases where they gained access to secret information one time after hacking into a certain database and leaving behind the signature bikini picture the FBI saw it as an opportunity to capture him they tracked down the GPS coordinates from the very same bikini photo it led to warmers girlfriend's house and it served as evidence against the hacker in his trial three years in prison was not enough to punish him his parole agreement includes a prohibition for him from connecting to the internet so that's how he lives today offline that must be rather bizarre because that still doesn't stop him from working as a programmer number three yawn Crisler fingerprints a feature that makes each one of us unique since even identical twins have different fingerprints yet this German hacker Yan Crisler also known as the star bug decided to prove that it's not that difficult to get a hold of someone else's fingerprints and not just anyone else's but the fingerprints of the German defense minister he found some high-resolution photos online which were enough for him to be able to successfully recreate her fingerprints not only that in 2013 when the iPhone 5s was released starbug defeated apple's thumbprint verification system within 24 hours of the release number two John Kane while most hackers can press their computer keyboards faster than Beethoven could play his piano other ackers indeed play piano faster than they pressed their computer keyboards one such was John Kane a pianist who after having discovered a minor glitch in a video poker machine the game king in Las Vegas made sure not to miss the opportunity together with his friend Andre Nestor they exploited this glitch and made half a million dollars also they got into big legal trouble all these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push their lawyer argued and they won the case number one seven Chan org hackers obviously hackers can be dangerous but some of them can be literally dangerous as they are able to inflict physical damage on to their victims the first computer attack of this kind happened back in 2008 when a group of Anonymous hackers hacked into the website of the Epilepsy Foundation of America where they spammed the support forum with numerous flashing animated gifs keeping in mind that people with epilepsy are very sensitive to bright imagery this attack caused users to get a headache and even have seizures the attack was planned on 7 Chan org a website that is known to be a fortress for these kind of hackers even though all these hackers indeed sound menacing it's important to remember that most of them have either been stopped or switched sides meaning that they are applying their genius to track and stop other criminal activity therefore as long as your password is more difficult than something like this you should be fine like this video press though subscribe notification and like buttons to make it easier for us to make more videos for you in the near future so we can continue fighting boredom together you [Music]

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Length: 12min 16sec (736 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 07 2018

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