Heard about the WannaCry vulnerablity which affects thousands of Microsoft Window devices.
Anyone with a PC with Internet Connection can cause a lot of havoc and make big companies lose money, which is pretty not cool as compared to when you are apprehended and go to jail.
These Vulnerabilities were of mass destruction and has made their mark of stand in the Time book of history.
Here are Top 10 Greatest Cyber hacks that ever occurred........
10. MafiaBoy Hacks (2000)
The cute young Man above, formerly and widely known as MafiaBoy, shook the world at the age of 15 - Micheal Calce - MafiaBoy unleashed a series of DDOS (Denial Of Service) attacks on a group of commercial Companies/Industries websites including top sites like Ebay, Amazon....Pretty Cool...
The Damage or Losses achieved by the companies were later estimated to be above $1 Billion .He was vindicated because at that time he was an invalid. Micheal has shun the media in past times, but has begin to open up on his past ordeals - as he is a security expert working for companiesdiscovering loopholes and flaws.
9. Conficker Worm (2008)
Conficker -Downup -Downadup - Kido.....SO many names...Uh...is a worm that mainly targets the Microsoft Windows OS. It flaws the Operating System and brute forces(Dictionary Attacks) on the Administrator's password - while creating a Botnet. This worm affected Millions of Home, Industries and Government systems in more than a 100 countries.
8. Sesame Street Youtube Channel Hack (2011)
October 16 - 2011, The Youtube channel for kiddies sesame street was hacked making it stream P**nographic contents for about 22 Minutes....- Parents cover the kids eyes....LOL...
7. 0XOMAR Hacks (2012)
In 2012....A Saudi Arabian Hacker by the name 0XOMAR published about 400,000 credit card details online...supposedly Isreali's and also laid a threat to release about A million credit card details in the future. An Isreali Hacker later published over 200 Saudi credit card details online as probably PAYBACK....but we clearly see who won.
6. SONY Pictures Hack (2014)
November 2014. A group of Hackers "The Guardians Of Peace", hacked into SONY pictures systems and left the SONY network down for a couple of days, valuable information was released into unreleased movies posted online. Of course it was blamed on North Korea for retribution of upcoming movie "The Interview"- but North Korea denied these allegations.
5. Bangladesh Bank Heist(2016)
This hack occurred last year....cause we are probably in 2017....YA
The Bangladesh Bank issued an instruction to steal almost $1 Billion - Via swift network. Transactions issued by Hackers whooped almost $101 million and withdrawn from Bangladesh Bank at Federal Reserve Bank Of New York - succeeded- later which- $20 million was traced to Sri Lanka and $81 million to the Phillipines....WOAH....It was later identified that the Dridesc malware was used.
4. ISKORPiTX -(2006)
Turkish Hacker ISKORPiTx successfully defaced 21,549 websites in one shot.....WOAH...What a GO!!!!!
3. Teenage Boy Breaks NASA (1999)
Jonathan James - 15 years old at that time conducted a series of penetration into the systems of the US Department of Defence and also left backdoors. He stole a NASA software worth $31,000(later estimated to be about $1 Million) and leaving their systems down for three weeks.
So sad he committed Sucide in 2008 after being accused of dealing in credit card hacks information hacks.
2. Microsoft Melisa Virus (1999)
This simple virus costs Microsoft a whooping about...$80 Million worth of damages...WOAH...That's a lifetime....It would attach and detach it self via sharing of emails and affected a very huge amount of devices. It was created by David Smith which was later apprehended and bagged almost 2years in jail, though his intent for creating the virus was not bad...HUMMmmmmm.....
1. Gonzales Hacks (2005-2007)
Albert Gonzales Mastermind of a series of combined effort credit card hacks and illegal reselling of over a 100million credit cards and ATM Numbers for about 2 years. He made the top of the list - as he is considered the biggest cyber fraudster in history.
His methods included SQL(C-KWEL) injection to leave backdoors on several company systems in order to launch packet sniffing attacks.
He was know to live life extravagantly and once complained to have to count $340,000 by hand after his money counting machine broke.
In 2010- March 25- He was sentenced to a slapping 20 years Jail time - In a federal prison .