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Jeanson Ancheta didn’t have the usual path that many hackers had in the old days but he carved his path through the use of his botnet army. This is the story of the first person to plead guilty to federal charges of hijacking computers for profit.

Jonathan James, a prodigious young hacker known by the alias ‘c0mrade.’ Hacking since age 6, he escalated from modifying computer games to infiltrating NASA’s systems at just 15. James, the first juvenile federally sentenced for computer hacking, targeted AT&T and NASA, gaining access to critical International Space Station elements.

In this article, we explore the story of David Pokora, who went from being an avid Xbox gamer to a notorious hacker and leader of Xbox-Underground.

In this story, two young hackers, Mathew Bevan and Richard Pryce, managed to penetrate the Pentagon’s supposedly secure defense network from the comfort of their bedrooms in the 1990s.

Albert Gonzalez, rose from teenage hacker to orchestrator of one of the largest credit card thefts. In 2007, with the ‘Get Rich or Die Trying’ crew, he used SQL injection to breach data from major companies, accumulating over 50 million credit card accounts.