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Michael Shapiro1989-05-12 00:00:00 UTC
Charged with 17 counts of computer hacking and conspiracy in the theft of information from WTVT-TV through computer phone lines.
Markus Hess1989-03-02 00:00:00 UTC
His activities began in Hanover and expanded out of the University of Bremen or through the German DATEX-P Network via satellite link or transatlan...
Karl Koch1989-03-02 00:00:00 UTC
Alleged for computer intrusions and selling secrets to west Germany KGB.
Sadly he passed away in an alledge sucide in 1989
Hans Hübner1989-03-02 00:00:00 UTC
Alledged for computer intrusions and selling secrets to west Germany KGB.
Dirk Brezinski1989-03-02 00:00:00 UTC
Alledged for computer intrusions and selling secrets to west Germany KGB.
Peter Carl1989-03-02 00:00:00 UTC
Alledged for computer intrusions and selling secrets to west Germany KGB.
Robert Morris1989-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Creator of and first person convicted of making computer worm. Morris worm was developed in 1988, while he was a graduate student at Cornell Univer...
Edward Singh1988-10-01 00:00:00 UTC
Accused of hacking into 250 Prime and Vax computers world-wide from Surrey University and elsewhere during the previous eight years, using a sophis...
Nicholas Whiteley1988-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Accused of declaring war on computers from his bedroom. ended up being called the mad hacker by the media.
Kevin Mitnick1988-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Mitnick first gained unauthorized access to a computer network in 1979, at 16, when a friend gave him the phone number for the Ark, the computer sy...
James Kosta1988-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Accused of hacking the sites of big business and military, including the systems of major banks, General Electric and IBM.
Donald Burleson1987-09-01 00:00:00 UTC
A programmer at the Fort Worth-based insurance company, USPA, was fired for allegedly being quarrelsome and difficult to work with. Two days later,...
Kevin Mitnick1987-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
By 1987, Mitnick seemed to be making an effort to pull his life together, and he began living with a woman who was taking a computer class with him...
Tom Anderson1985-10-01 00:00:00 UTC
yes, same tom anderson that later goes on to make social media site MySpace was caught up in the 1980s hackers and as a result had all computer sei...
Stephen Gold1985-04-10 00:00:00 UTC
Responsible for hacking prestel in 1984 and gained notoriety for hacking the Prince Phillips mailbox through gaining system manager status on the p...
Robert Schifreen1985-04-10 00:00:00 UTC
Responsible for hacking prestel in 1984 and gained notoriety for hacking the Prince Phillips mailbox through gaining system manager status on the p...
