List of hackers

This is a list of notable hackers who are known for their hacking acts.

0–9

A

• Mark Abene (Phiber Optik)^[1]
• Ryan Ackroyd (Kayla)^[2]
• Mustafa Al-Bassam (Tflow)^[2]
• Mitch Altman^[3][4]
• Jacob Appelbaum (ioerror)^[5]
• Julian Assange (Mendax)^[6][7]
• Trishneet Arora
• Andrew Auernheimer (weev)^[8]

B

• Loyd Blankenship (The Mentor)^[9]
• Erik Bloodaxe^[9]
• Jonathan Brossard
• Barrett Brown
• Max Butler

C

• Brad Carter (RBCP, Red box Chili Pepper)
• maia arson crimew
• Jean-Bernard Condat
• Sam Curry
• Cyber Anakin^[10]

D

• Kim Dotcom
• John Draper (Captain Crunch)^[11]
• Sir Dystic
• Wang Dong

E

• Alexandra Elbakyan
• Mohamed Elnouby
• Farid Essebar
• Nahshon Even-Chaim (Phoenix)

F

• Ankit Fadia
• Bruce Fancher (Dead Lord)^[12]

G

• Joe Grand (Kingpin)
• Richard Greenblatt^[13]
• Virgil Griffith (Romanpoet)
• Rop Gonggrijp
• Guccifer
• Guccifer 2.0

H

• Jeremy Hammond
• Susan Headley (Susan Thunder)
• Markus Hess (hunter)^[14]
• George Hotz (geohot)
• Andrew Huang
• Marcus Hutchins
• Rim Jong Hyok

I

J

• The Jester (hacktivist)
• Jonathan James
• Joybubbles (Joe Engressia, Highrise Joe)^[11][15][16]

K

• Kyle Milliken
• Samy Kamkar
• Karl Koch (hagbard)
• Alan Kotok
• Jan Krissler
• Patrick K. Kroupa (Lord Digital)
• Kris Kaspersky

L

• Adrian Lamo^[17]
• Chris Lamprecht (Minor Threat)^[18]
• Gordon Lyon (Fyodor)

M

• MafiaBoy
• Moxie Marlinspike
• Morgan Marquis-Boire
• Gary Mckinnon (Solo)
• Jude Milhon (St. Jude)
• Kevin Mitnick (Condor)
• Mixter
• Hector Monsegur (Sabu)^[2]
• HD Moore
• Robert Tappan Morris (rtm)
• Dennis Moran (Coolio)
• Jeff Moss (Dark Tangent)
• Katie Moussouris
• Andy Müller-Maguhn
• MLT (Matthew Telfer)
• Behzad Mohammadzadeh

N

• Craig Neidorf (Knight Lightning)

O

• Beto O'Rourke (Psychedelic Warlord)
• Higinio Ochoa

P

• Justin Tanner Petersen (Agent Steal)
• Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante)

Q

R

• Eric S. Raymond (ESR)
• Christien Rioux (DilDog)
• Leonard Rose (Terminus)
• Oxblood Ruffin
• Joanna Rutkowska

S

• Peter Samson^[13]
• David Schrooten (Fortezza)
• Roman Seleznev (Track2)
• Alisa Shevchenko
• Rich Skrenta
• Dmitry Sklyarov
• Edward Snowden
• Space Rogue
• Richard Stallman (rms)^[19]
• StankDawg
• Matt Suiche
• Peter Sunde
• Gottfrid Svartholm (Anakata)
• Kristina Svechinskaya
• Aaron Swartz

T

• Ehud Tenenbaum^[20]
• Cris Thomas (Space Rogue)^[21]
• John Threat^[22]
• Topiary^[2]
• Tron (Boris Floricic)^[23]
• Justine Tunney

U

V

• Kimberley Vanvaeck (Gigabyte)

W

• Steve Wozniak
• Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond)^[24]
• Robert Willis

X

Y

• YTCracker^[25]

Z

• Peiter Zatko (Mudge)^[26]

See also

• Tech Model Railroad Club
• List of computer criminals
• List of fictional hackers
• List of hacker groups
• List of hacker conferences
• Hackerspace
• Phreaking

References

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26. Hacker Mudge Gets DARPA Job