The most mysterious hacks in history

There are very famous hacking incidents in history, partly because victims are big organizations like NASA, the UK Ministry of Defense or Microsoft. The other part because they have never been touched by the law.

WANK worm: "environmental" virus

Deep message Wank left on NASA computer screen Perhaps the first "environmental struggle" hack in history, WANK worm attacked NASA headquarters in Greenbelt, Marryland in October 1989, running the banner on all NASA computer screens aimed at protesting the launch of Galileo probe Jupiter due to the use of Plutonium propulsion could cause nuclear disaster. NASA spent about half a million dollars on manpower and manpower to handle this "achievement". Until today, no one knows the origin of the hack, although many people believe that this "hacker activist" lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Hack defense satellites almost caused "information war"

In February 1999, a small group of hackers from southern England took control of the UK's Skynet satellite information satellite, triggering the "information warfare" alarm that caused panic by mistaking the system. Military telecommunications systems are attacked by enemies. Hackers can even reprogram the satellite control software before being detected. The joint investigation between the Anglo-American countries did not immediately find any information about these reckless people.

Money is unsuccessful, "show" you believe online

In January 2000, a hacker with the nickname Maxim surpassed the security system of the CDUniverse.com website, stole information from the entire website of the website and demanded a ransom of $ 100,000. When rejected, he launched all 300,000 credit card numbers on a personal website called "Maxus Credit Card Pipeline" (translated meaning) for the whole world to see. This Eastern European hacker is still out of shape.

Stole the source code of the rocket control software

What will happen if the control software . the cruise missile is stolen? Thankfully, hackers broke into Exigent Software Technology's system, the contractor in charge of designing software to control cruise missiles and missile guided satellites for the US defense ministry could only "stumble" 2 / 3 total source code. The authorities only tracked the hacker nicknamed "Leaf" to the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany, and he remained seated in December 2000 to this day.

Hack digital copyright protection code

Not all hackers are evil, especially those who "sacrifice themselves" to fix "mistakes" of monopoly firms. The hacker, nicknamed Beale Screamer, is such a person: his October 2001 FreeMe software allows Windows users to remove DRM codes from music and video files, helping them to give changing free movie music is no longer limited by the "maximum 3 times" law. Microsoft has long abandoned the hunt for Beale, while users have praised him as the "inspirational" hero, so that the postpartum class can continue the path . unlock.

Hack to campaign

In October 2003, when the campaign for the 2004-2008 US presidency was fierce, a hacker also lobbied his candidate in a very "unique" way: hacking homepage of CBSnews.com media group, the candidate's logo Dennis Kucinich instead, then automatically leads viewers to a 30-minute lecture video of Kucinich. Of course, this candidate denied any involvement in the above-mentioned "creative" campaign. Hackers have yet to show up.