Top 10 Grey Hat Hackers 2016

Grey hat hackers that do hacking bit the ethical and non ethical. These are the persons who knows great hacking tricks and they use their skills to hack up the networks and systems of various authorities and organisations but in illegal way.They usually break up the security walls of the network for their self purposes and cause great loss and harm to the authorities.Grey Hat Hackers intend to cause harm to any authority or any networking system.

Here is the list of top ten Grey Hat Hackers

1.Adrian Lamo: Also known as “homeless hacker” for his transient lifestyle .He is also known for his capability to hack into the internal computers of The New York Times in 2002.He accessed to the personal databases including the private information of more than 3,000 people.For doing this he was sentenced to two years and was fined $65000.

2.Vladimir Levin: He is Russian hacker who become famous in 1995 for hacking CitiBank’s accounts and stole nearly $10 million from various global accounts.He does this by hacking telecommunication system of the bank
and listened the costumers and their account credentials.

3.Albert Gonzalez: Sentenced for 20 years in prison, Gonzalez stole about credit card and debit card details of millions by hacking the information.

4.Gary McKinnon: He gained the access over 97 american military networks and left a message on their network “your security is crap”.He was great in art of using computer from the age of 14.

5.Kelvin Poulson: Being known as Dark Dante at 20 hacked into the LA phone networks .He does so to ensure that he has won the prize from radio show and even hacked hacked into the phone calls of “Hollywood Starlet” to proove it.

6.Syrian Electronic Army: To support the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad this hacking group created havoc by launching DDoS attacks on famous websites.The group is still active and generally target western organizations for the media outlets who oppose Syria.It is the one of the most known hacking groups of today.

7.Max Ray Butler: He was a security consultant before who changed to a hacker and digitally stole 2 million credit card numbers.Butler is serving 13 year sentence which is the longest ever given to a hacker.

8.Astra: A Greek hacker who infiltered the computers of French aviation company Dassault Group and stole weapons technology data for over 5 years.Astra sold the information about the military grade aircrafts and the jet fighters to other countries.The actual identity of him was not revealed but was known to be a 58 year old mathematician.He created a loss of more than $360 million.

9.Anonymous: The name of the hacktivist group that carried out hacking compaigns to support the political events.This group used to hack up the various authoroties to show up their thoughts to the government.

10.Kevin Mitnick: At childhood he used to make free calls by his hacked mobile phone and stole secret codes from Sun microsystems and Novell.He even admits that he hacked the phone calls of NSA(National Security Agency).