Hacking Stories

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.

Gary McKinnon, a 36-year-old computer hacker, was accused of hacking into 97 computers belonging to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Defense, and NASA.