1. Astra
Nobody knows
the hacker's name, but police in Greece revealed that the Astra is a
58-year-old mathematician who is a resident of Athens.
Greek authorities said that he hacked into the systems of the aviation
company, Dassault Group, for about half a decade. In that time, he stole
weapons technology information about the company's jet fighters and other
military aircraft, and sold it to different countries. It's said that he sold
this data to nearly 250 people in the Middle East, Brazil, France,
Germany, Italy, and South Africa, all for $1,000 a pop. The damages
to Dassault amounted to more than $360 million.
2. Adrian Lamo
3. Owen
Thor Walker
Better known as AKILL, is a skilled malicious
hacker attacks on a number of web sites and computer systems for several years. AKILL
responsible for the creation Akbot virus that allows it to take control of millions of computers
around the world and start using it to strike against a particular target. Prediction losses by AKILL amounted to $20 million.
4. Albert Gonzales
Albert Gonzalez
was born in Cuba. Because of his ability, he was responsible for conducting the
biggest theft of credit card numbers and ATM from 2005 to 2007. At the time,
authorities believe that Gonzalez stealing more than 170 million individual
card details by injecting various pieces of code into a computer system he had
illegally accessed. He then used the stolen data to authorize fraudulent
transactions and withdraw money from the accounts. Overall, Gonzalez reportedly
had reportedly $200 million worth of damage through harm computer systems and
theft of cash.
5. Michael
Calce
