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The biggest hacker scandals
the last two years.
Sixteen-year-old Briton Richard Price,
working on the computer in my bedroom,
spent seven months delving into Penta-
Gonovskaya information on the study
ballistic missiles. Further, "pretending
using a computer from the US Air Force system,
he climbed into the South Korean center by
atomic energy. Price's trial was
arrived on July 11, 1996.
Another Englishman, Matthew Bevan, 21
nii specialist in information technology
logiyas, also traveled for a long time around Pen
Tagonovsky networks. He disabled
a few days one of the systems, but not long
before his arrest he even managed to intercept
messages from American agents from the DPRK
during the inspection crisis
nuclear facilities. He was tried along with
Price.
A hacker named Ice Mc spent more than a year
Rorized many financial structures
Italy. According to police, he broke into
computers of large banks and strategic
many objects not only in Italy, but also in other
some European countries and the USA. They suspect
that he also visited Russian computers
rah. The attacker turned out to be a 17-year-old
student at Syracuse University. Name
it has not yet been disclosed.
An unknown hacker broke into the computer -
NASA headquarters and military systems
Wright Air Force Base -Patterson in
famous city of Dayton. As a result he
gained access to research pro
project related to combat control
aircraft and air combat tactics.
If he had ruined the project, the military would have
would have to spend $4 million to restore it
formation. This hacker cannot be detected
succeeded.
American hacker - repeat offender Kevin
Mitnik, at the age of ten,
nickname in the school database, and by the 30th -
ladies already had three “computer” convictions
ty, was imprisoned twice (5th and 8th month
Syatsev). Before Mitnik's release
swore not to touch the computer again
ru, but soon took up the old again.
This time he received 35 years in prison.
The most notorious case of recent times is
neither. St. Petersburg hacker Vladimir Levin
managed to penetrate the computer system
one of the largest American banks
SityBank - and steal $400 thousand (according to another
according to the data - $2.8 million). Stolen dollars
lari were transferred to several accounts -
some companies in California and Israel. Le
Vin went to England, but was soon arrested
tovan.
"Kommersant"
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