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Below is a list of computer criminals convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction for violations of Title 18, Part I, Chapter 47, Sections §1029 or §1030 of U.S. Code (or equivalent local laws) for unauthorized access to information resources, personally or by proxy (ie, virus authors).

	Adam Botbyl - an American computer hacker from Michigan. He, and fellow conspirators Brian Salcedo and Paul Timmins, gained unauthorized access to the United States nationwide computer system used by the Lowe's chain of home improvement and hardware stores. Timmins and Botbyl initially discovered an open wireless LAN accesspoint at the Lowe's store in Southfield, Michigan. Months later, Botbyl and Salcedo returned to explore and exploit the network. They then proceeded to install a program that allowed them to capture the credit card information of customers conducting transactions through the Southfield store. The government claims that the crime could have caused more than $2.5 million in damages. The three men were charged with 16 counts of wire fraud and unauthorized intrusion.
	Dennis Moran - A.K.A. Coolio - (born in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1982) is an American hacker who was accused in February 2000 of a series of Denial-of-service attacks that shut down some of the most popular websites on the Internet. He was later arrested and pled guilty to defacing the websites of DARE and RSA Security, as well as unauthorized access of US Army and Air Force computer systems at four military bases. On February 7, 2000 a smurf attack generating over 1 gigabit per second of ICMP traffic was launched against Yahoo's routers, causing their websites to be inaccessible to the world for hours. In a message sent to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Yahoo network engineer Jan B. Koum stated that the attackers were "above your average script kiddie" and "knew about our topology and planned this large scale attack in advance."
	Nahshon Even-Chaim - A.K.A. Phoenix - born in May 1971, was the first major computer hacker to be convicted in Australia. He was one of the most highly-skilled members of an elite computer hacking group called The Realm, based in Melbourne, Australia, from the late 1980s until his arrest by the Australian Federal Police in early 1990. His targets centered on defense and nuclear weapons research networks.
	Jonathan James - A.K.A. c0mrade - is an American hacker who was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. The South Florida native was 15 years old at the time of the first offense and 16 years old on the date of his sentencing. Between August 23, 1999, and October 27, 1999, James committed a series of intrusions into various systems, including those of BellSouth and the Miami-Dade school system. What brought him to the attention of federal authorities, however, was his intrusion into the computers of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a division of the United States Department of Defense, the primary function of which is to analyze potential threats to the United States of America, both at home and abroad. James targeted a number of NASA computers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA alleged that James had downloaded proprietary software worth $1.7 million dollars. This intrusion, when detected, caused NASA to shut down.
	Richard Jones - A.K.A. Electron - a member of an underground hacker community called The Realm. Jones, born in June 1969, was one of three members of the group arrested in simultaneous raids by the Australian Federal Police in Melbourne, Australia, on April 2, 1990. All three — Nahshon Even-Chaim (also known as Phoenix), Electron and Nom (real name David John Woodcock) — were convicted of a range of computer crimes involving the intrusion into US defense and government computer systems and the theft of an online computer security newsletter in the late 1980s and early 1990.
	Kevin Mitnick - is a controversial computer cracker and convicted criminal in the United States. Mitnick was convicted in the late 1990s of illegally gaining access to computer networks and stealing intellectual property. Kevin Mitnick would change his identity by exploiting how the identification system worked in the United States. He would obtain the birth certificates of recently deceased newborns and very young children (around the ages of 1 to 3 years old), as the government had no distinct record of their death since they never worked nor were involved in society.
	Mark Abene - A.K.A. Phiber Optik - is a computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik was once a member of the Hacker Groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception. In 1994, he served a one-year prison sentence for conspiracy and unauthorized access to computer and telephone systems. Phiber Optik was a high-profile hacker in the early 1990s, appearing in The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, in debates and on television. In conjunction with the nationwide AT&T telephone system crash in 1990, Abene's home was raided by the Secret Service on January 24. Secret Service agents permanently confiscated computer equipment and other belongings. In TIME, Joshua Quittner called him "the first underground hero of the Information Age, the Robin Hood of cyberspace."
	Robert Tappan Morris - is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet. He is the son of Robert Morris, the former chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center, a division of the National Security Agency (NSA). Morris created the worm while he was a graduate student at Cornell University. The original intent, according to him, was to gauge the size of the Internet. He released the worm from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conceal the fact that it actually originated from Cornell. Unknown to Morris, the worm had a design flaw. The worm exploited several vulnerabilities to gain entry to targeted systems. The worm spread rapidly, infecting several thousand computers. It was estimated that the cost of repair for the damage to each system ranged from $200 to more than $53,000.
	Jeffrey Lee Parson - an 18-year-old from Hopkins, Minnesota who was arrested for creating the B variant of the Blaster worm, (also known as Lovsan or Lovesan) was a computer worm that spread on computers running the Microsoft operating systems, Windows XP and Windows 2000.
	Kevin Poulsen - A.K.A. Dark Dante - (born 1965 in Pasadena, California, USA) is a former black hat hacker. He is currently a senior editor at Wired News. Before segueing into journalism, he had a notorious career in the 1980s as a hacker. He worked for SRI International by day, and hacked at night. During this time, Poulsen taught himself lock picking, and engaged in a brash spree of high-tech stunts that would ultimately make him one of America's best-known cyber-criminals. Among other things, Poulsen reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for an acquaintance that then ran a virtual escort agency. His best-appreciated hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller, and netting him a Porsche 944 S2. When the FBI started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. When he was featured on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, the show's 1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed.
	Brian Salcedo - was convicted in 2004 of conspiracy to commit wire and computer fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 for accessing a home improvement chain's wireless LAN in an attempt to recover credit card numbers. Salcedo gained access to the computer system used by the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores and installed a program to capture credit numbers used during transactions at the Southfield, Michigan store. Lowe's and the FBI allowed the intrusions while six numbers were captured. Although Salcedo did not view the credit card numbers, the government claims that the crime could have caused more than $2.5 million in damages.
	Simon Vallor - a twenty-two year old web designer from North Wales who, in December 2002, pleaded guilty to writing and distributing three computer viruses. On 21 January 2003 he was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court, London to a two year custodial sentence. His viruses - Gokar, Redesi and Admirer - were proven to have infected 27,000 PCs in 42 countries.

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