In the global Internet space, we have not yet had time to move away from leaks from iCloud with intimate photos of world famous Hollywood stars. These cases led to the compilation of a list of the 10 largest computer hacker attacks of all time.
List
- 10. Hack, Pentagon, 1983
- 9. Hacking, Citibank, 1994
- 8. Hacking, NASA, 1999
- 7. Hacking, PayPal, 2000
- 6. Hacking, Microsoft, 2004
- 5. Bank cards, 2005
- 4. Hacking, Payment System Heartland, 2010
- 3. Hacking, Iran's nuclear program, 2010
- 2. Hacking NASDAQ, 2013
- 1. USA, Israel, Russia, 2012-2014
10. Hack, Pentagon, 1983
The most surprising thing was that the Internet in its famous form at that time was not there. His predecessor was the ARPANet global network system. It was used by a young guy Kevin Mitnick to gain access from university computers to servers in the United States Department of Defense.
However, a talented guy soon got caught. He was assigned 6 months of correctional labor in a special youth center. But the computer genius did not stop there and in the nineties was sent to prison on charges of harming the state in the amount of 70 million euros. However, after a few years, Kevin corrected himself and was no longer seen in anti-legal acts.
9. Hacking, Citibank, 1994
This cyber-terrorist act took place with the participation of our compatriot, St. Petersburg Vladimir Levin. He managed to get into the internal systems of CityBank and transfer more than $ 10 million to personal accounts in the United States of America and other countries. However, all funds, except for $ 400 thousand, were blocked, and Levin was tracked and caught. The man was sentenced to three years with a punishment of imprisonment.
8. Hacking, NASA, 1999
The criminal who hacked the internal systems at the National Space Agency of the United States of America turned out to be very young to the surprise of many! 15-year-old boy Jonathan James hacked passwords from servers of other government agencies.
The guy received access codes to the information resources of the Space Agency. And then he stole the most important documentation from the agency’s servers, along with the source code for the ISS. The further tragic fate of the young man was determined by the length of the trial and a large number of interrogations. In 2008, this drove the guy to suicide.
7. Hacking, PayPal, 2000
This criminal act was carried out with the participation of our guys, computer geniuses from Chelyabinsk. Young people, Vasily Gorshkov and Alexei Ivanov, hacked into corporate networks “Pay Pel”, “Western Union” and others.
Having just ordinary desktop computers, young people successfully stole credit card numbers, with a total volume of about 16 thousand pieces. They crippled with a total monetary loss of 22 million. In 2000, the US FBI arrested robbers. Young people were sentenced to 3 and 4 years in prison.
6. Hacking, Microsoft, 2004
On February 12, 2004, global media learned about code theft in the Windows 2000 operating system. Microsoft spoke of stolen 600 million bytes of information, more than 30 thousand files and 13.5 million codes. Soon, most of the information published on the Internet. Hackers failed to detect.
5. Bank cards, 2005
Valdir Paulo de Almeida was recorded in historical references as the largest spammer to date. At that moment when the man was arrested, the hacker company sent almost three million messages with phishing emails per day. Malicious mailings distributed content with trojans. Viruses infiltrated the computers of users of Internet banking. Rough estimates have shown that such actions allowed the spammer to get rich by 34 million euros.
4. Hacking, Payment System Heartland, 2010
Once again, big hacker attacks on the banking system. This time, hacker attacks were carried out by Cuban citizen Alberto Gonzalez. On stolen information, the young man was able to enrich more than 8 million euros, in general, due to the resale of information. At least one tenth of the proceeds was buried in the garden of a private house of parents, where the police found him. Despite remorse, the guy was assigned 20 years in prison.
3. Hacking, Iran's nuclear program, 2010
This hacker attack became interesting in that it was not people who acted as an attacker, but computer program code with a trojan called Staksnet. He blocked the operation of some nuclear centrifuges in Iran. In the process of carrying out operational actions, for protection “scrolled” the previously copied video of observation. There are versions that “Staksnet” was invented by the Israeli secret service with US support.
2. Hacking NASDAQ, 2013
Another big cybercrime was hacking, organized by Russian and Ukrainian citizens. The Computer Craftsmen Association hacked into the NASDAQ electronic exchange. Crackers gained access to large brokerage services and to the servers of European and American banks.
The damage inflicted is estimated at hundreds of millions of euros, while only one attacker, Dmitry Smilyants, was caught.
1. USA, Israel, Russia, 2012-2014
In January 2012, a computer attack was recognized as the largest. It was the “response” of an unknown group of crackers to the MegaUpload site. Anonymous were very angry and began to carry out massive DDoS attacks on the FBI, the White House, the US Department of Justice, the United States Copyright Office.
Further, in April 2013, after operations under the name “Cloud Pillar”, Israeli sites were attacked with a total number exceeding more than 100 thousand units. Anonymous reacted to the events of the Ukrainian crisis by a massive attack on the site system of the government of the Russian Federation.