Here is a list of notable hackers who are known for their hacking acts.
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Mark Abene (Phiber Optik) Ryan Ackroyd (Kayla) Mustafa Al-Bassam (Tflow) Mitch Altman Jacob Appelbaum (ioerror) Julian Assange (Mendax) Trishneet Arora Andrew Auernheimer (weev)
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Loyd Blankenship (The Mentor) Erik Bloodaxe Barrett Brown Max Butler
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Brad Carter (RBCP, Red box Chili Pepper) maia arson crimew Jean-Bernard Condat Sam Curry Cyber Anakin
D
Kim Dotcom
John Draper (Captain Crunch) Sir Dystic
E
Alexandra Elbakyan
Mohamed Elnouby
Farid Essebar
Nahshon Even-Chaim (Phoenix)
F
Ankit Fadia
Bruce Fancher (Dead Lord)
G
Joe Grand (Kingpin) Richard Greenblatt Virgil Griffith (Romanpoet) Rop Gonggrijp Guccifer Guccifer 2.0
H
Jeremy Hammond
Susan Headley (Susan Thunder) Markus Hess (hunter) George Hotz (geohot) Andrew Huang Marcus Hutchins
I
J
The Jester (hacktivist) Jonathan James Joybubbles (Joe Engressia, Highrise Joe)
K
Kyle Milliken
Samy Kamkar
Karl Koch (hagbard) Alan Kotok Jan Krissler Patrick K. Kroupa (Lord Digital) Kris Kaspersky
L
Adrian Lamo
Chris Lamprecht (Minor Threat) Gordon Lyon (Fyodor)
M
MafiaBoy
Moxie Marlinspike
Morgan Marquis-Boire
Gary Mckinnon (Solo) Jude Milhon (St. Jude) Kevin Mitnick (Condor) Mixter Hector Monsegur (Sabu) HD Moore Robert Tappan Morris (rtm) Dennis Moran (Coolio) Jeff Moss (Dark Tangent) Katie Moussouris Andy Müller-Maguhn MLT (Matthew Telfer)
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Craig Neidorf (Knight Lightning)
O
Beto O'Rourke (Psychedelic Warlord) Higinio Ochoa
P
Justin Tanner Petersen (Agent Steal) Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante)
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R
Eric S. Raymond (ESR) Christien Rioux (DilDog) Leonard Rose (Terminus) Oxblood Ruffin Joanna Rutkowska
S
Peter Samson
David Schrooten (Fortezza) Roman Seleznev (Track2) Alisa Shevchenko Rich Skrenta Dmitry Sklyarov Edward Snowden Space Rogue Richard Stallman (rms) StankDawg Matt Suiche Peter Sunde Gottfrid Svartholm (Anakata) Kristina Svechinskaya Aaron Swartz
T
Ehud Tenenbaum
Cris Thomas (Space Rogue) John Threat Topiary Tron (Boris Floricic) Justine Tunney
U
V
Kimberley Vanvaeck (Gigabyte)
W
Steve Wozniak
Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond) Robert Willis
X
Y
YTCracker
Z
Peiter Zatko (Mudge)